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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

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 RESOURCE LINKS

U.S. Census Bureau
Historic tables on men's and women's educational attainment in the US (1940 to 2000)

Link to the index of the detailed tables:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/phct41.html

Link to graphics for the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/education/phct41/US.pdf

National Center for Education Statistics
Trends in Educational Equity of Girls and Women: 2004

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005016.pdf

National Center for Education Statistics
Digest of Education Statistics, 2004: Chapter 3, Postsecondary Education,
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/ch_3.asp

National Women’s Law Center
Tools of the Trade: Using the Law To Address Sex Segregation In High School Career
and Technical Education

http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=2462&section=education

American Association of University Women
research draws national attention to issues of gender equity and education.

http://www.aauw.org/research/index.cfm

Catalyst
leading research and advisory organization working with businesses and the professions
to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women at work.

http://www.catalystwomen.org/

Feminist theory:

“feminist theory” entry in Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_theory

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech University
Feminist theory website provides resource materials and information about
different schools of thought within feminism as well as feminist movements globally.
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/

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