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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.

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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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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.

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Administration Resources
Annual Reports,
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Contact Logs and Evaluation Forms
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Student Staff Procedures and Handbooks

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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.

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QUESTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY:WOMEN’S STUDIES AND INTEGRATIVE LEARNING
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Table 2. Common learning outcomes for Women’s Studies.

1. Baccalaureate candidates (and minors, to a lesser extent; graduate students to a greater extent) should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following content/vocabulary:

  • The difference between sex and gender; shifting definitions of “woman”
  • Women’s contributions to history, culture, politics, etc.
  • Variation in women’s experiences across nations, cultures, time, class, race, etc.
  • Intersectionality of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality; interlocking oppression
  • Standpoint theory; importance of location; situated knowledge
  • Social construction of gender
  • Gendered construction of knowledge and social institutions
  • White privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege
  • Feminism/Womanism/mestizaje
  • Waves of feminism
  • Major issues or “big questions” pertaining to contemporary women, eg. domestic violence, abortion, redefining motherhood
  • Key figures and concepts in feminist theory, eg. Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
  • The history of women’s activism; strategies for social change.

2. Baccalaureate candidates (and minors, to a lesser extent; graduate students to a greater extent) should be able to demonstrate competence in the following skill areas:

  • Applying cross-cultural and global awareness to “big questions” about women and gender
  • Considering an issue from multiple perspectives
  • Thinking critically
  • Constructing arguments with evidence obtained from research
  • Locating, evaluating and interpreting diverse sources, including statistics
  • Recognizing sexist/racist writing and thinking
  • Engaging in critical self-reflection, promoting self-awareness
  • Connecting knowledge and experience, theory and activism, Women’s Studies and other courses
  • Communicating effectively in writing and speech
  • Applying knowledge for social transformation, citizenship
  • Using gender as a category for analysis

(The assessment plan for ASU-West Campus includes some less common skills—lifelong learning and the use of technology. Both of these skills reflect social changes, and other programs may wish to add them to their goals.)


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QUESTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY:WOMEN’S STUDIES AND INTEGRATIVE LEARNING - Downloads

AUDIO CONFERENCE

NWSA Audio Conference <- Click to listen.
The audio conference included:

  • Beverly Guy Sheftall, Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper, Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College
  • Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President at the American Association for Colleges and Universities
  • Kristine Blair, Professor and Chair of English at Bowling Green State University
  • Amy Levin moderated.

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