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Twice annual member publication

NWSA Journal

Official journal of NWSA

NWSA Resource publications

Syllabi Collections, Program Admin Handbook and more

Graduate Guide to Women's and Gender Studies

Free resource for students considering graduate work in Women's/Gender Studies

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources

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.

Click here to visit the PA&D webpages and resources.

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,
Strategic Planning and Surveys
Constitutions and Advisory Boards
Contact Logs and Evaluation Forms
Mission Statements
Position Descriptions
Program Proposals
Student Staff Procedures and Handbooks

And More...

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

NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
Click here to see more

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.


NWSA WOMEN'S CENTERS STANDING COMMITTEE CONSULTANTS

If you are willing to serve as a consultant, could you please send an e-mail with the following information: your name and contact information (mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail and webpage for your Center) and the area in which you are qualifed to be a consultant (for example, starting up a Center, sexual assault programming, etc.) to  Xenia Markowitt at xenia.markowitt@dartmouth.edu
Please note: You must be an individual member of NWSA to serve as a consultant.

Also, if you are currently on the list, please check to make sure your contact information is up-to-date and let Brenda know if you no longer wish to be on the list.

Gail Cohee
Director, Sarah Doyle Women's Center
Box 1829, 26 Benevolent St.
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401-863-3402
Fax: 401-863-2025
Gail_Cohee@brown.edu

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/ Sarah_Doyle_Center/

Areas of Expertise:
Building Women's Centers' ties to Women's/Gender Studies and to other Centers on campus

Ali P. Crown
Director
Center for Women
Emory University
569 Asbury Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-2000
Fax: (404) 727-2002
Acrown@emory.edu


http://www.womenscenter.emory.edu

Areas of expertise:
Setting up new women's centers; external reviews of women's center; fund-raising; women and leadership; advisory boards; building alliances across the campus.

Elena (Ellie) Marie DiLapi,
ACSW, QCSW, LSW

Director, Penn Women's Center
University of Pennsylvania
3643 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6320
Phone: 215-898-8611
Fax: 215-573-8783
dilapi@pobox.upenn.edu

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pwc/

 

Jane Goettsch, M.S.
Director, Women's Center
Miami University
205 MacMillan Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
Phone: 513.529.1510
FAX: 513.529.8130
goettsjm@muohio.edu

http://www.muohio.edu/womenscenter

Areas of expertise:
women and leadership
physical location/space issues
reporting lines/organizational location
sexual assault programming & politics

Kathleen Holgerson
Women's Center
University of Connecticut
2110 Hillside Rd., Unit 3118
Storrs, CT 06269-3118
Phone: 860-486-4738
Fax: 860-486-1104
kathleen.holgerson@uconn.edu

http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu

Areas of Expertise:
Violence Against Women on Campus;
Sexual Harassment Prevention education; Student staff development; Women’s Centers in multicultural affairs units; Working with Advisory Boards.

Amy Johnson Howton, MA
Program Manager, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator
UC Women's Center
Suite 571 Steger Student Life Center
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0179
Phone: 513-556-0173
Fax: 513-556-0686
Amy.Howton@uc.edu

 

Claire N. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Director, Sexual and
Domestic Violence Services
UVA Women's Center
P.O. Box 800588
Charlottesville VA 22908-0588
Phone: 434-982-2774
Fax: 434-982-2901
ckaplan@virginia.edu

http://sexualassault.virginia.edu

Areas of Expertise:
Sexual and domestic violence programs and services; LGBT programming and services; Activism & service learning; women's centers as sites for service learning; Impact of activism on academic performance.

Amy Levine, Ed.D.
Director, Center for Gender Equity
University of California, San Francisco
100 Medical Center Way
Box 0909
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-5837
Fax: (415) 476-4849
ALevine@Genderequity.ucsf.edu

http://www.ucsf.edu/cge/

Areas of expertise:
Creating and establishing new women's centers; external reviews of women's center; women and leadership; communication and negotiation; raising healthy non-sexist boys; Women’s Centers – surviving or thriving?

Donna Eileen Lisker
Director, Women's Center
Duke University
126 Few Fed, Box 90920
Durham, NC 27708-0920
Phone: (919) 684-3897
Fax: (919) 681-6885
dlisker@duke.edu

http://wc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/

 

Robyn McGee
Women's Resource Center
California State University,
Dominguez Hills
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, Ca 90747
Phone: (310) 243-2486
Email: rmcgee@csudh.edu

http://www.csudh.edu/womenscenter/

Areas of Expertise: women and body image, African American women and health issues, eating disorders and women's representations in the media.

Melanie Miller
Director
Women's Resource Center
University of Alabama
Box 870361
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0361
Phone: 205-348-5040
Fax: 205-348-5282
Email mlmiller@sa.ua.edu

http://wrc.ua.edu

Areas of Expertise: Developing Violence Against Women Services and Programming; Developing student peer education programs (traditional and educational theater); Using Men as Allies; Ally Building on Campus; Building a Women's Center; Grant Funding for Women's Centers; Campus and Community Partnerships.

Jane M. Olsen
Women's Center
Saint Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
Saint Cloud, Minnesota 56301-4498
Phone: 320-308-4958
E-Mail: jolsen@stcloudstate.edu

http://www.stcloudstate.edu/womenscenter/

 

Juli Parker
Director, Women's Resource Center
UMass Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Rd.
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
Phone: (508) 910-4584
Fax: (508) 910-6456
Jparker@umassd.edu

http://www.umassd.edu/wrc/welcome.cfm/

Areas of Expertise:  Building Women's Centers ties to Women's Studies and other departments; Setting up a new women's center; fund-raising; building alliances across campus, sexual assault policy development and programming; student staff development; women's leadership; women and body image; eating disorders and the media; female orgasm and sexuality; educational theatre; community partnerships; teaching women's studies; advising student groups; programming; transitioning from a part-time center to a staffed center.

Elizabeth Pickens
Women’s Center
University of Missouri-Columbia
229 Brady Commons
Columbia, MO 65211

573.882.6621—phone
573.884.5780—fax
PickensE@missouri.edu

Areas of Expertise: Programming; Collaborative campus & community relationships; Building feminist community; Starting/Advising student organizations; Success on a shoe-string; Teaching feminism & social justice

Lisa Rismiller
Director, Women's Center
University of Dayton
#201 Alumni Hall
Dayton, OH  45469-0322
Phone 937-229-5390 (main)
           937-229-5592 (direct)
Fax 937-229-5334
lisa.rismiller@udayton.edu

http://www.womenscenter.udayton.edu

Areas of Expertise: developing the concept for, gaining institutional support for and leading a Women's Center.
Developing and managing mentoring programs and women's networks within institutions.

Beth Rietveld
Women's Center Director
Benton Annex
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-2503
Phone: 541-737-1330
Fax: 541-737-7504 fax
beth.rietveld@oregonstate.edu

http://oregonstate.edu/womenscenter

Areas of Expertise:
Starting up a Center

Kathy Rose-Mockry
Director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
University of Kansas
1301 Jayhawk Blvd.
Room 400 Kansas Union
Lawrence, KS 66045
Phone: 785-864-3552

krosemockry@ku.edu

http://www.ku.edu/~etwrc/

Areas of Expertise
Sexual Violence/Creating a Sexual Assault Response Plan; Sexual Harassment; Programming; Leadership and Mentoring Programs; Men's issues/Programming; Creative Co-sponsorships.

Candace Rypisi
Director, Caltech Women's Center
MC 265-86
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: 626-395-3221
candacer@its.caltech.edu

http://www.womenscenter.caltech.edu

Areas of Expertise:
Starting up a Center; Transitioning from a student-run to a staffed Center; Women in science and engineering

Jennifer Tilghman-Havens
Director, Women's Resource Center
Boston College
141 McElroy
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617-552-6919
tilghman@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/wrc

Areas of Expertise:
Starting up a Center; Sexual assault programming; Women's Center at a Catholic university; Body image and eating disorder programming

Robin L. Whitmore
Director, Women's Resources
and Research Center
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-3372
Fax: (530) 752-0222
Rlwhitmore@ucdavis.edu

http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu

 
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