LANDMARKS

DePaul University
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at DePaul was approved for an MA Program that begins Fall, 2007. The MA was approved during their 20th Anniversary year.

National Women’s Studies Association
NWSA will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2007 and anticipates a series of special offerings and opportunities for members to commemorate the event.

The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
Celebrate their first class (10 students) enrolled in the new MA program in Women and Gender Studies.

The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is home to the new, and only, Masters in Women’s and Gender Studies program available between Baltimore and Atlanta. Launched with 10 students, the first generation of the program consists of a diverse student body with undergraduate degrees from the University of Nigeria to SUNY-Brockport.

The Women’s and Gender Studies Master’s program is interdisciplinary in design, allowing a personalized course of study and building upon UNCG’s historical mission as the Woman’s College of North Carolina. The new MA program is unique in offering three concentrations to prepare graduates for professional employment or for further study: a concentration in Gender and Health, a concentration in Gender and Community Leadership, and an individually designed concentration developed in close consultation with a faculty advisor. A series of professional development courses prepares graduate students for careers outside the academy.

The master’s program seeks to respond to social needs on a global scale. Globalization and migration have dramatically changed communities and families in the United States and abroad. These changes have significant effects on gender roles and have created many new challenges for governments, for the health-care delivery system and for families. The master’s degree proposes to train graduates to develop, assess, and implement programs designed to address these and similar problems, particularly as they are impacted by and even created by gender and ethnic differences.

The new Master’s Program is unique in offering students preparation for careers outside the academy. Program development has been founded by the council of Graduate Schools and the Ford Foundation.

More than 40 WGS faculty have contributed to the program development with over 30 currently teaching core and cross-listed course. For more information about the program
visit http://wgs.uncg.edu.

DePaul University adds MA Program

The DePaul University Women’s and Gender Studies announces a NEW MA Program to begin Fall 2007. Last year, we celebrated our 20th Anniversary, and the approval of the MA Program offers us an opportunity for continuing to grow and develop in a multitude of directions.

The Program’s strengths build on the accomplishments of the past 20 years. The program has grown in numbers of faculty and students, expanded its curriculum in new directions, and built strong connections with community institutions and organizations.
We’ve grown exponentially since our inception. We began with no WMS-specific faculty, and now we have eight full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, one full-time visiting faculty, and two part-time faculty, and over 40 affiliated faculty across the university. While we’ve grown in numbers, we’ve also grown in our conceptions of“women” “men” “gender” and “feminism.” The program’s commitment to recognizing the interconnectedness of systems of oppression and privilege in local, national, and transnational contexts continues to deepen.

In 2002, we changed our program’s name to Women’s AND GENDER Studies, and made a commitment to transforming our curriculum in terms of more comprehensively engaging global and transnational feminist perspectives as well as gender studies.

DePaul’s WGS Program has a strong commitment to social justice and community services which is reflected in our involvement in many projects and initiatives for change. The program’s faculty, staff, and students have been integrally involved in the establishment of the Sexual Harassment Office, the Women’s Center, the LGBTQA Student Support Services office, the LGBTQ Minor Program, the Stop Sexual Violence Taskforce, among others. And we have ongoing relationships with community-based organizations and initiatives.

In the past several years, faculty in the program initiated and developed a Women and Gender Research Initiative which works with community members to effect social change through research addressing social policy, advocacy, and community development. Research projects collaborate with community groups such as: teen girls in changing urban neighborhoods; low-income families, organizations supporting domestic violence survivors; school programs to prevent relationship violence. The Initiative will provide graduate students with excellent research possibilities.
For more information about the MA Program, check out our website: http://www.depaul.edu/~wms

This is what a feminist looks like"
sticker day.

Northern Illinois University’s Women’s Studies program invites everyone to participate in what has become an annual ritual on their campus — "This Is What Afeminist Looks Like” sticker day.

In 2007, the event will be on Thursday March 1. The deparment makes the stickers (about the size of poliitcal buttons) avaiable about two weeks ahead of time, and they publicize the fact extensively through the faculty, campus press, and email lists.

The event has proved extremely popular and successful. If you would like to do this on your campus, please contant Rebekah Kohli, Program Coordinator, Women’s Studies Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 Tel. (815) 753-1044, rkohli@niu.edu

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University recently held the Flora Stone Mather Spotlight Awards for Achievement in Research and Scholarship. One woman was chosen by the dean of each department.

Eight women were presented with a frame certificate and a $500 honorarium.

Pictured here are (back row l- r)
Vice Provost Lynn Singer, Awardees Marion Good, Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing; Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics & Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the School of Law; Kathleen Farkas, Associate Professor of Social Work in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences; Kathleen Kash, Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences; FSM Center for Women Director Dorothy Miller; (front row l-r) Anne Hiltner, Herbert Henry Dow Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering; Patricia Marshall, Associate Professor of Bioethics in the School of Medicine; Lisa M. Maillart, Assistant Professor of Operations at Weatherhead School of Management. Not pictured Yiping Weng Han, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences in the School of Dental Medicine.

The Western Illinois University Women’s Center

The Western Illinois University Women’s Center has partnered with the Western Illinois University Libraries to make the Women’s Center Resource Library holdings more accessible and available to students, faculty, staff and community members.

This past summer, staff in the University Libraries catalogued the Women’s Center’s collection--which has more than 1,000 books as well as a variety of journals, magazines, video and audio tapes, and CDs--making it possible for our holdings to be searchable through the statewide ILLINET Online library catalog. University Libraries also provided the Center with the hardware and software that has enabled our system to interface with theirs.

Libraries faculty and staff also have begun to refer patrons to the Women’s Center Resource Library more often now that they are more familiar with what is available in the Center’s collection. Full story in NWSAction Fall 05 Edition.