All Entries in the "Women’s Studies" Category
Goshen College Seeking Out More Men for Its Women’s Studies Courses
Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, is changing the name of its women’s studies program to women and gender studies. The name change was made in an attempt to gain more interest in the curriculum among men on campus.
University of Wyoming Honors Women’s Role in the State’s History With a New Sculpture
The University of Wyoming has commissioned a new sculpture honoring the contributions women have made to the state’s history. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote, serve on juries, and to hold public office.
Duke University Publishes a Book on the History of Women on Its Campus
Duke University Archives has published a new volume that offers a “visual timeline of the work and lives of women who have helped shape Duke University history since 1838.”
A New Master’s Degree Program in Women’s Leadership at the Mississippi University for Women
The Mississippi University for Women in Columbus has been coeducational since 1982 but today women make up more than 80 percent of the undergraduate student body.
New Archive of Women’s History Established at the University of Utah
The archive was the result of the work of Aileen H. Clyde, who has been a community leader in Utah for the past 60 years. The collection includes oral histories, journals, photographs, manuscripts, and other documents of women from many walks of life.
Emory University Establishes New Center Focusing on Women’s Heart Health
The goal of the Emory Women’s heart Center is to raise awareness of the dangers of heart disease among women and to conduct research to determine the best diagnostic tests and treatments specific to women.
Western Washington University Plans to Rebrand Its Women’s Studies Program
Western Washington University in Bellingham has announced plans to rename its women’s studies program to women, gender, and sexuality studies.
Texas Woman’s University to Continue to Require Women’s Studies
Despite new state regulations standardizing the core curriculum to some degree across all publicly operated colleges and universities in the state, Texas Woman’s University recently announced that women’s studies will remain a requirement at the university.
West Virginia University Debuts New Website on the Status of Women in the State
The West Virginia Mapping Project website is designed to inform policy makers, nonprofit organizations, researchers, and the general public on the status of women in West Virginia.
New Exhibit Documents Early Twentieth-Century Summer School for Working Women at Bryn Mawr College
The summer school at Bryn Mawr College was meant to give working women a taste of the educational experience that at that time was largely a luxury for upper-class women.
Women From World War I Era Honored by Indiana University
Indiana University maintains a huge “Golden Book” where the names of military veterans associated with the university are recorded. The records go back as far as the War of 1812. Some women, who previously were excluded, were included in the book on Veterans Day.
U.S. Holds 23rd Place in Rankings of World Nations in Gender Equality
The United States is tied with 24 nations for the highest gender equality ranking in educational attainment. But the U.S. scores poorly in women’s health and political participation.
University of Illinois Acquires the Papers of Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
The collection includes 150 boxes of manuscripts, drafts, journals, letters, scrapbooks, and awards. Also among the archives are the meticulous notes of everything Brooks ate for last 20 years of her life.
University of Connecticut Acquires the Papers of Magdalena Gomez
“Magdalena Gomez can be considered the quintessential Renaissance woman: poet, playwright, performer, writer, and social activist.”
Boston University Offers New Certificate Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The new program provides an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students interested in this field. Graduate students in women’s literature will come together to study with graduate students in women’s history, women’s health, sexuality studies, and other fields.
Smith and Mount Holyoke to Hold Women in Public Service Project Institute
The women’s colleges in western Massachusetts have announced that they will hold a two-week institute next spring entitled “Reconstructing Societies in the Wake of Conflict: Transitional Justice and Economic Development.”
New Website for Women Created by Utah Valley University
The Utah Women’s and Leadership Project website provides information on associations and support groups for women and lists events that are of particular interest to women.
Women’s Organization at UMass Offering Three New Support Groups
The Center for Women & Community at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is offering three seminars this fall to support women members of the campus community. The sessions are available to women in the Five Colleges consortium in the Amherst area.
University of Texas Acquires the Archives of Julia Alvarez
The archives include manuscripts, journals, and correspondence. The manuscripts include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and unpublished works.
An Historical Photographic Archive of Women’s Sports at Duke University
The archives of the athletics department at Duke University has more than 28,000 photographic negatives from the 1928 to 1982. Researchers recently discovered a group of photographs showing Duke women playing baseball as early as 1934.
New University of Alabama Birmingham Exhibit Showcases Letters of Florence Nightingale
The letters, written between 1853 and 1893, cover a wide range of topics. They were donated to the university in 1958. The letters have been digitized and are available on iPads in an exhibit on the first floor of the university’s School of Nursing.
London School of Economics Debuts Its New Archive of Women’s History
The school says that the offering is “the oldest and most extensive collection of women’s history in Europe.” The collection, originally the property of the London Metropolitan University, includes tens of thousands of books and documents.
University of Texas Receives the Papers of Barbara Probst Solomon
The Henry Ransom Center, a humanities research library at the University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the papers of Barbara Probst Solomon, a journalist, author, and essayist.
New Book Explores the Role of Gender in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
A new book by Brenda Stevenson, a professor of history at UCLA, makes the argument that gender issues played a major role in leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of police offices in the Rodney King case.
City College Seminar Identifies Places of Significance in Women’s History
Students in Professor Marta Gutman’s seminar on gender and architecture at City College in New York have identified 14 sites that they believe are important to women’s history. The students are proposing that these sites be included in New York City’s Census of Places That Matter.
Pakistani Athletes Come to North Carolina to Learn How Sports Can Empower Women
Twelve women athletes from Pakistan recently completed a visit to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as part of the U.S. State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative.
Lightning Strikes and Ignites a Fire at the Women’s Resource Center at Swarthmore College
The third floor of the building, which sustained the brunt of the damage, contained the Women’s Resource Center library and its collection of feminist literature. The first and second floors suffered water and smoke damage.
Nonprofit Aims to Help Teen Mothers Complete College
Less than 2 percent of women who have a baby before the age of 18 go on to earn a college degree before they reach the age of 30. A new nonprofit aims to help teen mothers earn their college degrees.
George Washington University to Participate in New Lecture Series on Women’s History
George Washington University has entered into a partnership with the National Women’s History Museum to create a new lecture series to focus on women in American life. A series of four lectures will be held, two in the fall semester and two in the spring semester.
Twin Sisters Earn Doctorates at the University of Utah
The twins completed doctorates in communication will now devote their time to furthering the mission of their foundation Beauty Redefined which seeks to replace society’s idea of beauty with a more balanced approach to physical and mental wellness.
Unemployment and Smoking Are Factors in Higher Mortality Rates for Low-Educated Women
The research used data on 47,000 White women ages 45 to 84. Factors such as poverty status, obesity, marital status, and alcohol consumption were shown to have no impact on death rates of similarly aged women. But smoking and unemployment were associated with higher death rates.
New Graduate Degree Programs in Women’s Studies at Stony Brook University
The women’s and gender studies program at Stony Brook University in New York has announced the establishment of a master’s degree program and a Ph.D. program in the discipline.
Louisiana State University to Open New Women’s Center
Louisiana State University is opening its new Women’s Center in May 2. The new 5,000-square-foot facility will include classroom space and an expanded library.
University of Northern Iowa Reinstates Master’s Degree Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
In March 2012, the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls suspended all admissions to its master’s degree program in women and gender studies due to cuts in funding for academic programs on campus.
Syracuse University Women’s Choir Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary
The Syracuse Women’s Choir is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a special concert honoring its legacy by performing works that it has featured over the past century and a quarter.