PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (PAD) PRE CONFERENCE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11
Select "PAD Pre Conference" on the conference registration form

The Program Administration and Development Committee hosts a daylong session that offer important networking and professional development opportunities for women’s and gender studies a on Thursday, November 11.  The pre-conferences include a registration fee in addition to the general conference registration. 

For more information on the PAD visit http://www.nwsa.org/PAD/

NWSA Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference

The PAD Pre-conference organizers invtied the submission of proposals on a broad range of topics related to women’s/gender studies program administration and development.. 

Expected topical presentations for 2010 include: 

Program Budgets and Sustainability

• Creating and/or sustaining a healthy program during times of financial crisis
• Writing successful grant proposals
• Fundraising: cultivating donors and friends groups

The Women’s and Gender Studies Curriculum

• New approaches to core courses
• Expanding your reach on campus: building alliances through cross-listings
• New technologies and the women’s studies classroom

Program Administration and Innovation

• Building your program
• How can you create an effective major proposal?  What does it take to build a sustainable master’s program?
• Sharing innovation success stories

Professional Development

• Balancing scholarship and administration
• Surviving and thriving as women of color faculty
• Mentoring women of color faculty
• Moving from director to dean