Abstract
The Educational Equity Resource Center (EERC) records contain material from workshops hosted by the EERC throughout Southern Nevada, especially Las Vegas, Nevada, between 1973 and 2000. The EERC aimed to provide teachers, students, and parents information on gender equity education, support, and training. Workshop materials include participant worksheets, surveys, brochures, instructional booklets, advertisements, correspondence, and evaluation forms. Workshop participants include K-12 students, postsecondary school students, educators, and parents. The records also include EERC organizational correspondence, reports, newsletters, publications, and resources detailing workshop and EERC funding, development, and promotion.
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The Educational Equity Resource Center (EERC) records contain material from workshops hosted by the EERC throughout Southern Nevada, especially Las Vegas, Nevada, between 1973 and 2000. The EERC's aimed to provide teachers, students, and parents information on gender equity education, support, and training. Workshop materials include participant worksheets, surveys, brochures, instructional booklets, advertisements, correspondence, and evaluation forms. Workshop participants included K-12 students, postsecondary school students, educators, and parents who received vocational training in non-traditional careers, math and science courses, and education on sexual harassment in schools and workplaces. Workshops included "Expanding Your Horizons," "Equals," "Family Math," and "Guiding Your Child From School to Work."
The EERC organizational records include correspondence, reports, newsletters, publications, and resources detailing workshop and EERC funding, development, and promotion. The records also include audiovisual recordings of EERC workshops, , educational videos, promotional videos, documentaries, and television and radio spots.
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Collection is open for research, with the exception of materials that are restricted to protect personally identifiable information. Restrictions are noted at the box level of this inventory.
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Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
These records are organized into two series:
Series I. Organizational records, 1973-1999;
Series II. Workshop material, 1974-2000.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Educational Equity Resource Center (EERC) was a service at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that provided gender equity education and training for teachers, students, and parents. They served an approximate average of five thousand students and one thousand educators annually throughout Nevada.
Hired in 1985, Joyce Nelson-Leaf developed and headed the EERC with funding from the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act and support from the Nevada Department of Education. The EERC intended to encourage students to explore non-traditional careers, challenge gender bias in classrooms and workplaces, and encourage young women to seek vocational training, leading to higher paying employment and a reduction of welfare dependency.
The EERC opened in the summer of 1989 in the College of Education, located in the Carlson Education Building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They offered a resource library, including programs such as
The EERC also published books such as
The center closed on June 30, 2000 due to a lack of funding.
Sources:
McCafferty, S., Filler, J., Gallavan, N. P., Okura, S., Higgins, K., Troutman, P., Zehm, S., Bannatyne, M., McClain, M., Nelson-Leaf, J.
McCafferty, S., Filler, J., Gallavan, N. P., Putney, L. A., Sileo, N., Higgins, K., Troutman, P., Meacham, P., Giorgis, C., Govett, A., Henry, J., Pankratius, B., Bendixen, L., Nelson-Leaf, J.
Preferred Citation
Educational Equity Resource Center Records, 1973-2000. UA-00083. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1968 by the Educational Equity Resource Center; accession number 1999-014.
Processing Note
In 2019, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Jimmy Chang rehoused and arranged the materials, wrote the finding aid and entered the data into ArchivesSpace.
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