National Women's Studies Association
Mapping Women’s and Gender Studies Data Collection
The National Women's Studies Association established its Mapping Women’s and Gender Studies project to collect data that could provide a comprehensive portrait of these programs and how they manifest themselves in different U.S. institutions of higher education.
An executive summary and search options for the complete data are now available.
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Letter from the NWSA Research Scholars’ Advisory Board
Dear Colleague:
We write as members of the National Women's Studies Association Research Scholars’ Advisory Board to encourage you to take a few minutes to complete the NWSA Survey of Women’s and Gender Studies Programs.
This groundbreaking initiative will collect data to create a comprehensive picture of women’s and gender studies programs nationally at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The NWSA survey will provide critical information on the state of the field after more than 30 years of its growth and development.
NWSA will analyze the data to better understand the field and to develop programs and services accordingly. Aggregate information will be posted on the public portion of the NWSA website. Detailed program-specific responses will be available in a searchable database on a secure section of the NWSA website for members only. By comparing your program with others, you can make the case for staffing and other resources, help to strengthen the field, and improve access to women’s studies education.
We would like to highlight some key questions this survey will begin to answer:
- How many Women’s Studies majors and minors received degrees in 2005-06?
- What funding sources support Women’s Studies programs and departments?
- How many full-time Women’s Studies faculty nationally identify themselves as people of color?
We anticipate that the answers to these questions will offer a rich resource for scholarly inquiry, and that it will give rise to new questions about the state of the field. Thank you for taking time to complete this survey.
Sincerely,
Melinda Chen, University of California, Berkeley
Anastasia Curwood, Vanderbilt University
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College
Barbara Horn, Nassau Community College
Vivian May, Syracuse University
Vivien Ng, University at Albany, SUNY
Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland
