NWSA Rocky Mountain/Southwest Region

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

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.
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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.