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