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Show Organizations of Interest to Women 283 American A880ciation of Univer8ity Women, 2401 Virginia Avenue NW., Wash ington, D.C., 20037. Founded 1882. Its purpose is to raise standards in edu cation generally, to enlarge opportunities for college women, and to help members extend their education and use their abilities and training in build ing better communities and meeting national and international problems. Affiliated with the International Federation of University Women. Member ship: Over 155,000. American Oottncil on Edttcation, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, D.C., 20036. Established 1918. Serves as a center of coordination and co operation in higher education; conducts inquiries and investigations into specific educational problems and seeks to enlist appropriate agencies for their liaison between higher education and the Federal Gov solutions. Acts ernment. Membership: 227 educational associations, 1,072 institutions. as a American Vocational Association; Inc., 1010 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, D.O., 20005. to 1906. Founded 1925 by a merger of two associations which go back Its purpose is to promote vocational and practical arts education and to improve the quality of instruction in these phases of education, to find the aptitudes and talents of each child and prepare him for the vocation in which he is best fitted to earn his livelihood, and by so doing to contribute to the free dom and security of both the individual and the Nation. Also, the associa tion promotes training of adult workers in vocational education to update them in their occupations and to train them for new ones. Membership : 35,000, approximately 10,000 of whom are women. National Aseociatton. of Women Deans and Oouneelors, a department of the National Education Association, 1201 16th Street NW., Washington, D.C., 20036. Established 1916. Its purpose is to increase the professional effec tiveness of its members and to advance personnel work in schools and colleges. It is especially interested in education as it relates to women's changing roles in society and in the implications of these changes for counseling. Member ship: 2,000. Oonaress of Colored Parents and Teachers, 123 South Queen Street, Dover, Del., 19901. Founded May 7, 1926. Its purpose is to promote the wel fare of children and youth in home, school, church, and community; to raise the standards of homelife; to secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth; to bring into closer relation the home and the school, National that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child; to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as can secure for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education. Membership: 250,000. (Not restricted to women.) National Oonorese of Parents and 'I'eachere, 700 North Rush Street, Chicago, Ill., 60611:. Founded 1897. Its purpose is to promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, church, and community; to raise the standards of homelife; to secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth; to bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child; and to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as can and secure for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, to women.) spiritual education. Membership: 12,131,318. (Not restricted |
