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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

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

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.

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.

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.

Governance

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


NWSA: RESEARCHING THE FIELD

INSTITUTIONAL NWSA MEMBERS FOR 2007
395

INDIVIDUAL NWSA MEMBERS FOR 2007
2,000

Source: NWSA Membership Database

DATA ON THE FIELD
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. Click here to search the database
This project is made possible with generous support from The Ford Foundation.

QUESTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY: WOMEN’S STUDIES AND INTEGRATIVE LEARNING
Past efforts to assess the field of Women’s Studies include Ford Foundation sponsored reports by Catharine Stimpson (1986) and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (1995). A FIPSE-funded study was led by Caryn McTighe Musil and yielded three 1992 publications. Recent assessments are lacking, and there is a contradiction between the field’s assertion that it is at the forefront of educational change and the reality that program goals, student outcomes, and assessment methods have changed little in a dozen years. Women’s Studies must engage in renewed assessment efforts in order to maintain its leadership position, and this document offers a snapshot of the status of the field.  Click here to read the full report

WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM RANKINGS
The National Academies ranks doctoral programs, and is including the “emerging field” of women’s and gender studies for the first time in its latest assessment project.  This assessment is scheduled to be completed in early 2008. 

Note, however, that the women’s studies programs will not be ranked; instead they will be qualitatively and quantitatively assessed.  The National Academies reserves rankings for programs that graduate at least 500 PhDs annually.

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