Registration is open for the UConn Women’s Advance Conference on May 15, 2024 at the Avery Point campus. Visit the 2024 conference website information and register HERE.
Author: Kathy Fischer
We’re Hiring for the Fall!
Submit your application today on JobX for one of the following positions: Job ID # 14752 – Community Engagement Specialist Job ID # 14767 – Greeks Against Sexual Assault Peer Facilitator Job ID # 14749 – Newsletter Editor Job ID #14751 – Programming Specialist Job ID # 14724 – Violence Against Women Prevention Program Facilitator […]
Reproductive Justice – Health, Rights, & Social Justice
Reproductive justice is a feminist framework, developed by women of color, that center’s the needs of the most marginalized and affirms our human right to bodily autonomy and to live healthy lives with access to the necessary physical, mental, political, economic, social, and sexual resources for the well-being of all people. The three core values […]
Revolutionary Love: The Call of Our Times with Valarie Kaur
Join us for an evening with Valarie Kaur, civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, and author of the #1 LA Times Bestseller SEE NO STRANGER. Valarie has led visionary campaigns, including the Revolutionary Love Project, to tell untold stories and change policy on issues ranging from hate crimes to digital freedom. Book sale and […]
Call for Proposals – Women’s Advance Conference
The UConn Women’s Advance Conference is a professional development opportunity for women staff, graduate students and faculty at all levels of the University that is designed to expand skills, increase knowledge, and enhance networks to promote a more inclusive and supportive working and learning environment. The UConn Women’s Advance Conference Planning Committee is […]
100 Years Of Women Scholarship – Applications Open
The 100 Years of Women Scholarship Fund was established in 1992 to honor a current matriculated UConn student and/or a high school senior planning to enroll in the University of Connecticut who, as a role model or advocate, has advanced the role and contributions of women in society. Applicants must be enrolled at least half-time […]
One Love
The Women’s Center’s Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP) is excited to offer the One Love program about intimate partner violence prevention. Two peer facilitators will present the workshop using the film MVP from the One Love foundation. MVP is a film focusing on how healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors can influence our romantic relationships, […]
Melissa Harris-Perry – Women’s Center’s 50th!
Women’s Center 50th Anniversary Celebration with Melissa Harris Perry Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses on American politics and elections at the intersections of race, place, and gender. She is the founder and President of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization with […]
2022 Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awards
Check out this year’s amazing award winners!!
Women’s Advance Conference – Registration Extended to Friday!
Registration has been extended! Register HERE by May 13, 2022