How To Get Involved

Students

• Become a Women’s Center intern or volunteer, or complete your practicum in our office.
• Attend a workshop, film, or speaker event.
• Women student leaders (undergraduate and graduate) can attend Women’s Organizations Networking for Equity (Women’s O.N.E.) to develop leadership skills and network with other student leaders.
• Be a writer on our Feisty Femmes blog, our virtual community of women students.
• Graduate and professional students can participate in the Women’s Organization of Graduate and Professional Students (WOGAPS) to share experiences with other graduate women.
• Apply for a Special Grant to change the campus climate for women.
• Nominate yourself for the Sharon L. Doherty Award for student volunteerism leadership ($400 U of M Bookstore certificate).
• Attend a conference in your discipline or profession of interest. Women’s Center travel grants can help you get there!
• Join the cohort of women students in the year-long Women in Leadership Development program and put your leadership principles into action!

Employees: CSBU Women, P&A Women, Faculty Women

• Advocate for women in your work group via the CSBU Women’s Action Network, P&A Women’s Council, or the Women’s Faculty Cabinet.
• Volunteer to help plan the 2010 National Teleconference for Women in Higher Education.
• Develop your leadership skills via the Women's Leadership Institute, The Women's Professional Circles, Leading From Where You Are Program for CSBU women, and the President’s Emerging Leaders.
• Call to inform us or speak up/take action to help create a better climate for women at the University.
• Imagine and begin a new program or initative.
• Donate money to the Women’s Center’s scholarships or programs.

Feisty Femmes

Blog for Women Students

“When it comes to defining and discussing the idea that is the feminist movement, I think that one set definition is both impossible and impractical. Although it would appear at first glance to unify feminists and push us all towards a common (and written) goal, but I would argue that not only is such a unification impossible but detrimental to feminism. Universal 'sisterhood' isn't possible and would alienate many feminists across the globe. Rather than advocating for a universal definition, why not use the resources one has and one's personal manifesto/a, or 'feminism', to create the change?”

More at Feisty Femmes, the Women’s Center’s virtual community of women undergraduate and graduate students.