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Proposals for women's studies endowment accepted through March 1
The Center for Women’s Studies at West Virginia University has issued a call for proposals for its 2007 Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women’s Studies Teaching and Learning. The deadline is March 1.
The Stitzel Endowment was established to ensure a continuing and vital presence for women’s studies as an academic discipline at WVU. Any faculty member may apply.
Activities eligible for funding include – but are not limited to – the creation of new courses or the reconfiguring of current ones increase and enhance women’s studies on campus.
One proposal will be funded for the maximum amount of $4,000.
Faculty should apply online at www.as.wvu.edu/wmst/app_stitzel.htm by 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1. A committee of Women’s Studies faculty associates will determine which proposal will be funded. Their decision will be announced by April 9.
The successful applicant will be recognized at the Center for Women’s Studies Honors Weekend ceremony April 21.
Stitzel is recognized as the “founding mother” of women’s studies at WVU. She joined the Department of English faculty in 1965, was promoted to full professor in 1979.
In 1980, she became the first coordinator of the women’s studies program and was also the first director of the Center for Women’s Studies from 1984-92. The program became an established academic discipline under her leadership. She created the endowment after her retirement.
For more information, contact Dr. Barbara Howe, director of the Center for Women’s Studies, at barabara.howe@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-2339, ext. 1155.
The Center for Women’s Studies is part of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.