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The Program Administration and Development Committee (PA&D) is a standing committee in NWSA specifically designed to represent the interests and needs of administrators of women's studies programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's administrators and their departments and programs.

The PA&D webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

These include:
Administrators Hand Book
The latest edition of the Administrators handbook

Defining Women's Scholarship
A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards.

What Programs Need
Essential Resources for Women's Studies Programs.

Shared Development Documents including course development, climate issues and surveys, service learning guides and evaluations and much more.

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Click here to visit the Women's Center pages and resources.

Women's Centers have representation on the NWSA Governing Council as a standing committee. This is more than a symbolic recognition of the important role that women's centers play in feminist education.

The Center webpages offer a wealth of free downloadable resources for NWSA members.

Administration Resources
Annual Reports,
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NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
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Current initiatives include:

NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA is partnering with the National Organization for Research (NORC) at the University of Chicago to collect data on the field of women’s studies nationally.

Women of Color Leadership

The WoCLP is designed to increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women’s studies and, consequently, to have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in the PA&D, NWSA, and in the field of women’s studies as a whole.

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

QUESTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY:WOMEN’S STUDIES AND INTEGRATIVE LEARNING
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Appendix A: Works Cited

Association of American Colleges [AAC]. The Challenges of Connected Learning. Washington, DC: AAC, 1990.

Association of American Colleges and Universities [AAC&U]. Liberal Education and the “Big Questions”. Special issue of Liberal Education 93.2 (Spring 2007).

---. Liberal Education Outcomes: A Preliminary Report on Student Achievement in College. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2005.

Association of American Colleges and Universities, Board of Directors. Our Students’ Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of Our Mission. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2004.

Beardsley, Rebecca M., and Michelle Hughes Miller. "Revisioning the Process: A Case Study in Feminist Program Evaluation." In Siegart and Brisolara, 57-70.

Boxer, Marilyn Jacoby. When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women’s Studies in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.

Cox, Milton D., and D. Lynn Sorenson. "Student Collaboration in Faculty Development: Connecting Directly to the Learning Revolution." In Matthew Kaplan and Devorah Lieverman, eds., To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 1999. 97-127.

Eaton, Judith S. “Assault on Accreditation: Who Defines and Judges Academic Quality?” In AAC&U, Liberal Education and the “Big Questions.”

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Women’s Studies: A Retrospective. New York: Ford Foundation, 1995.

Harris, Karen L., Kari Melaas, and Edyth Rodacker. “The Impact of Women’s Studies Courses on College Students of the 1990s.”  Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 40.11/12 (June 1999): 969-977.

Hartman, Susan. What Programs Need: Essential Resources for WS Programs. College Park, MD: NWSA 1991; rev. 2001. NWSA PAD Resources

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, and Agatha Beins, eds. Women’s Studies for the Future. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005.

Levin, Amy K., Beth Zemsky, et al. National Women’s Studies Association Strategic Plan. College Park, MD: NWSA, 2004.

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, and Maria Herrera-Sobek. Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? New York: The Modern Language Association, 2000.

Meacham, Jack. “Assessing Diversity Courses: Tips and Tools.” Diversity Digest

Musil, Caryn McTighe, ed. The Courage to Question: Women’s Studies and Student Learning. Washington, DC: AAC, 1992.
(Available from the NWSA Office, please call (301) 403-0407 or email nwsaoffice@nwsa.org)

---. Executive Summary: The Courage to Question. Washington, DC: AAC, 1992.

---. “National Assessment Study of Women’s Studies Classes.” [Report on 1989-1992 FIPSE Grant] ERIC. Electronic full-text. ERIC Document Reproduction Service. ED413 856.

---. Students at the Center: Feminist Assessment. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges, 1992.
(Available from the NWSA Office, please call (301) 403-0407 or email nwsaoffice@nwsa.org)

National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America’s Promise. College Learning for the New Global Century. Washington, DC: AAC&U, 2007.

National Women’s Studies Association. Liberal Learning and the Women’s Studies Major, A Report to the Profession. Washington, DC: AAC, 1991.

Pryse, Marjorie. Defining Women’s Studies Scholarship. College Park, MD: NWSA, 1999. NWSA PAD Resources

Porter, Nancy M., and Margaret T. Eileenchild. The Effectiveness of Women’s Studies Teaching. Washington, DC: National Institute of Education, 1980.

Richter, Amy, and Ramona Thomas. Women’s Studies and the Study of Women Report. [Summary of Spencer Foundation working conference, September 30-October 1, 1999]

Siegart, Denise, and Sharon Brisolara, eds. Feminist Evaluation: Explorations and Experiences. New Directions for Evaluation, 96. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Sorenson, D. Lynn. Education Publications Center, 2006.

University of Minnesota, Morris, Women’s Studies. Instructions for WoSt 4901.

Vickers, Melana Zyla. An Empty Room of One’s Own: A Critical Look at the Women’s Studies Programs of North Carolina’s Publicly Funded Universities. Inquiry Paper 21. Raleigh, NC: John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, March 30, 2005,

Wiegman, Robyn. “The Possibility of Women’s Studies.” In Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins, eds., Women’s Studies for the Future. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005. 40-60.

---, ed. Women’s Studies on Its Own. Durham: Duke U P, 2002.

Zimmerman, Bonnie. “Women’s Studies, NWSA, and the Future of the (Inter)Discipline.” NWSA Journal 14.1 (Spring 2002): viii-xviii.

For additional resources, see also the Teagle Foundation bibliography of works on outcomes and assessment.

All links accurate as of August 2007.


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