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Publications

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

Leadership & Member Directories

Directory

Directory Includes:
Staff
Governing Council
Delegate Assembly

Member Directory

Institutional Directory

Programs & Departments

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 or gender studies programs and departments to the Governing Council of NWSA and to assist NWSA in meeting the needs of women's / gender studies 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 and Gender 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.

Women's Centers

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.

Current Initiatives

NWSA has many initiatives in development and ongoing.
Click here to see more

Current initiatives include:

NWSA Data Collection Project

NWSA partnered 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 / gender 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 / gender studies as a whole.

Professional Resources

Awards & Scholarships

Member Areas

Governance

Governance

This section includes reports, recommendations, constitution, bylaws, elections, policies and so forth.

Students

Communities

NWSA ARCHIVE PROJECT

NWSA Archives

You can help preserve National Women's Studies Association history.  If you have NWSA materials in the categories listed below to contribute to the NWSA archive at the University of Maryland library, please send them to the national office at 7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 502, College Park, MD 20740.

Guidelines for sorting material:

  1. Your material is appropriate for the NWSA archive if it falls into the categories listed below.
  2. Please sort your material before sending it and note on folders the appropriate categories (listed below) into which the material falls.  
  3. The archive will maintain only one copy of each document, so if your personal records contain duplicates, please discard the duplicate materials before mailing them to NWSA.

NWSA Archive Series List

  1. Caucuses
  2. Committees
  3. Delegate Assembly
  4. Executive Director
    1. Caryn McTighe Musil
    2. Deborah Louis
    3. Elaine Rubin
  5. Governing Council
  6. Membership
  7. Regions
  8. Task Forces
  9. Interest Groups
  10. Administrative
  11. Financial
    1. Budgets
    2. Finance Committee
    3. Financial Reports
  12. Funding
  13. National Conference
    1. Cultural Events/Entertainment
    2. Conference Budget
    3. Local Arrangements
    4. Programming
    5. Programs
    6. Registration
    7. Scholarship Winners
    8. Audiovisual
  14. Projects
  15. Publications
  16. Women’s Studies Programs
  17. Women’s Studies Resources
  18. Curriculum Resources
    1. Bibliographies
    2. Community/Junior Colleges
    3. General Programs
    4. Graduate Programs
    5. International Programs
    6. Internships
    7. Pre-K and K-12
    8. Subject Files
    9. Syllabi
  19. Women’s Centers
  20. Photographs
  21. Memorabilia
  22. Magnetic Tapes
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