Welcome Women Students!

Our hope is that this webpage helps improve the academic and professional environment for women undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at the University of Minnesota. On this page you’ll find resources that women students have suggested would be helpful to their success. We encourage you to get involved in campus life—via volunteering or interning at the Women’s Center, by participating in Women’s O.N.E. (Organizations Networking for Equity) or the Women’s Organization of Graduate and Professional Students (WOGAPS), by nominating yourself or colleagues for awards, and through the thousands of other fantastic opportunities available to you. Please contact us if you have a great idea to help the Women’s Center be a stronger catalyst for the University to achieve equity for women.

Awards, Grants and Scholarships

• Macpherson/Alumnae Scholarship
• Sharon L. Doherty Award
• Special Grants
• Student Travel Grants

Professional and Leadership Development

• Women in Leadership Development (WILD)
• Women's O.N.E. (Organizations Networking for Equity)
• Women’s Organization of Graduate and Professional Students (WOGAPS)

Feisty Femmes Blog

Feisty Femmes is a virtual community for women undergraduate and graduate students to share their thoughts about their own experiences, their ideas about current events, or issues of interest to women.

Women's Student Activist Collective

The Women’s Student Activist Collective (WSAC), while separate from the Women’s Center, maintains a close relationship with the Center and often work with the Women’s Center to offer programming and support for students on campus. (One of the programs sponsored by the Women's Center and WSAC is the Bufandas By Yolanda Intergenerational Knitting Group.)

The Women’s Student Activist Collective, located in 202 Coffman Memorial Union, is a student organization that strives to empower women and transgendered people on campus to eliminate racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, classism, and all interrelated forms of inequality in order to affect positive change in society.

Groups for Women Students

Hmong Women's Group

The Hmong Women’s Group, sponsored by the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence, and co-sponsored by the Women’s Center, seeks to promote an environment where cultural identity, networking and connecting with other Hmong women students on campus are supported. Objectives include conversations in finding solutions to balance culture, family, academics, friends and life altogether to make Hmong women successful in this ever-changing environment. For more information, visit the Hmong Women’s Group Facebook page. You can also contact Ah Vang-Lo at vang0464@umn.edu or Linda Vang at vang0286@umn.edu.

SistaFriends

SistaFriends was created to generate conversations on finding ways to balance race, culture, gender, academics and LIFE altogether. SistaFriends will assist African American women students with developing proactive characteristics that allow them to not only survive at the University of Minnesota, but also thrive! For more information, contact dadex001@umn.edu.

International Asian Women, Hand-in-Hand!

Our mission is to help internatinal Asian women students succeed at the University of Minnesota. This group will help you: create a network with other members; learn more about Asian cultural identities in a safe environment; build a sense of self-confidence and; gain coping strategies for stress in a new cultur. For more information, contact chuan039@umn.edu.