Women's Studies Program

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• SOCA 324: African American Studies
• SOCA/WOMS 290/490: Women in Poverty

• Focus on Women Conference 2001: March 3, 2001
  Our annual conference, entitled "Diversity 2001: Where Will We Go From Here?", will be held in the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Union. The day will feature plenaries by Sheila Radford-Hill, author of Further to Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment, and Margaret Hennington, president of the Legacy Bank in Milwaukee. Break out sessions will give us an opportunity to study and discuss diversity and to strategize about changing the organizations and institutions we influence. The annual awards for excellence in education, health/human services, professional/business, and volunteerism will be presented at the luncheon.  To obtain nomination forms for these awards, click here for the html version or pdf format.
  
  
• Women in Technology Day 2004
   
• Race, Class, and Gender Study Group
  A reading/discussion group.
• Women in Math, Science, and Technology Day 2001: Friday, April 6, 2001
  Our annual one-day program for seventh-grade girls is designed to encourage young women to pursue their dreams of careers in math and science.
  
• A Computer Science Laboratory for Attracting and Retaining Women in Computer Science
• Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative
  The Women and Poverty Public Education Initiation is a project of research and public education. We are working with other Women's Studies programs throughout the state to carry out collaborative research and to promote dialogue among the following groups: women whose lives have been affected by poverty; agencies which are administering W-2; public officials who are formulating policy; and other concerned citizens of Wisconsin.
• Teresa Peck Award: 2000
  This award, named for its founder, Women's Studies director from l981-85, will be given for the best paper written by a UW-Parkside student during the 2000 calendar year.

 

University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium

The Women's Studies Program at UW-Parkside is a member of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium. The Women's Studies Consortium works to ensure the continued development of Women's Studies in the UW System, to maintain our current national prominence in the field, and to create a unique inter-institutional model for educational innovation. The Consortium serves as the formal organization of the fourteen campus-based Women's Studies programs and UW-Extension.

Three of the cooperative programs of the Women's Studies Consortium are:

• the Women's Studies Librarian (click here for access to resources in Women's Studies, worldwide.),
• the Women and Science Program, and
• the Women's Studies Consortium Outreach Program
  Two of the projects coordinated by Women's Studies Consortium Outreach are:
  • the Annual University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Conference.
  • the Women's Studies Consortium Native American Curriculum Project.

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Women's Studies Program Office:

Linda Vanderhoef, Program Assistant (email: vanderho@uwp.edu)

Phone: 262/595-2162; Fax: 262/595-2183

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