PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (PAD)
PRE CONFERENCE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11
Select "PAD Pre Conference" on the conference registration form
The Program Administration and Development Committee hosts a daylong session that offer important networking and professional development opportunities for women’s and gender studies a on Thursday, November 11. The pre-conferences include a registration fee in addition to the general conference registration.
For more information on the PAD visit http://www.nwsa.org/PAD/
NWSA Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference
The PAD Pre-conference organizers invite the submission of proposals on a broad range of topics related to women’s/gender studies program administration and development (proposals that are not specifically related to program administration and development should be submitted to the general conference).
We especially encourage proposals for complete panels, workshops, roundtables, or any variety of other formats. Authors of individual papers and those with ideas for panels are encouraged to use the PAList to generate interest to complete panels. All proposals must be submitted via NWSA’s online proposal submission system.
Suggested topics include:
Program Budgets and Sustainability
- Creating and/or sustaining a healthy program during times of financial crisis
- Writing successful grant proposals
- Fundraising: cultivating donors and friends groups
The Women’s and Gender Studies Curriculum
- New approaches to core courses
- Expanding your reach on campus: building alliances through cross-listings
- New technologies and the women’s studies classroom
Program Administration and Innovation
- Building your program
- How can you create an effective major proposal? What does it take to build a sustainable master’s program?
- Sharing innovation success stories
Professional Development
- Balancing scholarship and administration
- Surviving and thriving as women of color faculty
- Mentoring women of color faculty
- Moving from director to dean