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About NWSA

Publications

NWSAction

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

Leadership & Member Directories

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

Programs & Departments

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.

Women's Centers

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.

Current Initiatives

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.

Professional Resources

Awards & Scholarships

Member Areas

Governance

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

Students

Communities

 MID-ATLANTIC REGION WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION

MID-ATLANTIC REGION WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MAWSA)

THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MAWSA) is the non-profit regional organization of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), which was founded in 1977 to further the development of Women's Studies throughout the world at every educational level, in every setting.

MAWSA invites scholars, students, activists, and members of the community to its annual conference, held at member colleges and universities, to host panel discussions, present current research and conduct workshops, with the aim of furthering the discourses related to women's studies.

Mid Atlantic
Regional Chairs:

Karen Weekes
kew16@psu.edu

Genevieve Carminati
genevieve.carminati@montgomerycollege.edu

Region website:
http://www.abington.psu.edu/psasite/news/mawsa.html

CURRENT NWSA MEMBER INSTITUTIONS IN THIS REGION:


Women's Centers (4)

1. University of Delaware,   Newark,   DE.   

2. East Stroudsburg Univ. of Penn.,   East Stroudsburg,   PA.   
http://www.esu.edu

3. Kutztown Univ.,   Kutztown,   PA.   
http://www.kutztown.edu

4. Lehigh Univ.,   Bethlehem,   PA.   


Women's and Gender Studies Programs and Departments (45)

1. George Washington University,   Washington,   DC.   
http://www.gwu.edu/~wstu

2. Georgetown Univ.,   Washington,   DC.   
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/women

3. Institute for Women's Policy Rsrch,   Washington,   DC.   

4. Univ. of Delaware,   Newark,   DE.   
http://www.udel.edu/WomensStudies

5. Anne Arundel Comm. College,   Arnold,   MD.   
http://www.aacc.edu/wms

6. Frostburg State Univ.,   Frostburg,   MD.   

7. Goucher College,   Baltimore,   MD.   
http://www.goucher.edu

8. Montgomery College,   Rockville,   MD.   
http://www.montgomerycollege.org/departments/wstudies

9. Towson Univ.,   Towson,   MD.   
http://wwwnew.towson.edu/womensstudies/

10. Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Co.,   Baltimore,   MD.   
http://www.umbc.edu/wmstudies

11. Univ. of Maryland, College Park,   College Park,   MD.   
http://www.womenstudies.umd.edu

12. College of Saint Elizabeth,   Morristown,   NJ.   
http://www.cse.edu

13. Drew Univ.,   Madison,   NJ.   

14. Georgian Court Univ.,   Lakewood,   NJ.   

15. Monmouth Univ.,   West Long Branch,   NJ.   

16. Montclair State Univ.,   Upper Montclair,   NJ.   
http://www.montclair.edu/womensstudies

17. New Jersey City Univ.,   Jersey City,   NJ.   
http://www.njcu.edu/programs/wgstudies/content

18. Rutgers Univ., Camden,   Camden,   NJ.   
http://crob.rutgers.edu/~lbernste/

19. Seton Hall Univ.,   South Orange,   NJ.   

20. The College of New Jersey,   Ewing,   NJ.   
http://wgst.intrasun.tcnj.edu/

21. William Paterson Univ.,   Wayne,   NJ.   

22. Allegheny College,   Meadville,   PA.   
http://merlin2.alleg.edu/dept/womens/index.html

23. Bucknell Univ.,   Lewisburg,   PA.   
http://www.bucknell.edu/womensandgenderstudies/

24. Bucks County Comm. College,   Newtown,   PA.   

25. Carlow Univ.,   Pittsburgh,   PA.   
http://www.carlow.edu

26. Dickinson College,   Carlisle,   PA.   

27. Drexel Univ.,   Philadelphia,   PA.   
http://www.drexel.edu/coas/womensstudies/

28. Gettysburg College,   Gettysburg,   PA.   
http://gettysburg.edu/academics/womens_studies/

29. Kutztown Univ.,   Kutztown,   PA.   
http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/wstudies/

30. Lafayette College,   Easton,   PA.   
http://www.lafayette.edu

31. Lehigh Univ.,   Bethlehem,   PA.   

32. Lycoming College,   Williamsport,   PA.   
http://www.lycoming.edu

33. Messiah College,   Grantham,   PA.   
http://www.messiah.edu

34. Muhlenberg College,   Allentown,   PA.   
http://www.muhlenberg.edu/

35. Penn State Univ.,   University Park,   PA.   

36. Shippensburg Univ.,   Shippensburg,   PA.   
http://webspace.ship.edu/women/

37. Susquehanna Univ.,   Selinsgrove,   PA.   
http://www.susqu.edu/womens/studies/default.htm

38. Swarthmore College,   Swarthmore,   PA.   
http://www.swarthmore.edu/humanities/women

39. Temple Univ.,   Philadelphia,   PA.   

40. The University of Scranton,   Scranton,   PA.   
http://academic.scranton.edu/department/wstudies/

41. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,   Philadelphia,   PA.   

42. Univ. of Pittsburgh,   Pittsburgh,   PA.   
http://www.pitt.edu/~wstudies

43. Washington & Jefferson College,   Washington,   PA.   

44. Widener Univ.,   Chester,   PA.   

45. York College of Pennsylvania,   York,   PA.   


Other Institutional Members (4)

1. Caldwell College,   Caldwell,   NJ.   

2. Chatham University,   Pittsburgh,   PA.   

3. Villanova Univ.,   Villanova,   PA.   

4. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,   Philadelphia,   PA.   
http://www.wilpf.org