Every year, the President’s Commission for Women (PCW) recognizes a faculty or staff member on campus who has directly contributed to promoting women’s issues and/or eliminating gender inequality. Nominations are available and are awaiting you to nominate that awesome someone on campus. This is your chance to tell someone, “thanks for the work you’ve been doing… it hasn’t gone unnoticed!”

Nominations have been attached to this post. For additional information feel free to contact Dawn Stoute (co-chair of the PCW) at dstoute@umbc.edu.

Nominations are due January 23^rd.

The Women's Center would like to send a special thanks to everyone who contributed to the Sarah's Hope donation drive! We were both impressed and touched by all the donations. Because of you, someone's day will be brighter!

• Are you a female student 25 years of age or older? 

• Are you returning to college to finish your degree? 

• Are you beginning school at the age of 25 or older? 

Check out two new arrivals to our lending library! 

Coffee Talk: Homelessness and Hunger Panel Discussion

Students completing internships at the Women’s Center work an average of 8 hours per week during the academic semester. The spring 2012 internship will begin in January and go through May.

Women's Center interns are an integral part of
the Women's Center staff, contributing to the Center’s mission of “assisting all women in achieving their full potential in education, career and personal life through academic and intellectual growth, professional development and personal empowerment.”

This internship may look differently from year to year depending on the intern involved because the Women’s Center strives to maximize on the current intern’s interests and strengths. While we are able to offer some flexibility, all interested intern applicants should work within the parameters of the description below:

UMBC Women’s Center Programming, Outreach & Activism
Internship

Programming:

·
Organize a program or
series on a topic affecting women and/or marginalized groups. Potential programs can be flexible to meet your interests and your academic program’s needs.

• Some ideas include: Women’s
  physical/mental health; Sexual education; LGBTQ issues; International women’s
  issues; Leadership development; Body image; Sex-trafficking; Feminization
  of poverty; Intersectionality; Media portrayals of women and girls.

·
In addition to a program
of interest, interns will be responsible for helping the Women’s Center staff
with programming related to 1) Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April) and 2) the Center’s 20^th Anniversary Celebration. Related responsibilities
include but are not limited to:

• Sexual Assault Awareness
  Month: helping to manage the Clothesline Project; organizing partnership
  with other universities for Take Back the Night options;
• Women’s Center 20^th Anniversary Spring Events: promoting Anniversary events; aiding in
  organization of previously planned 20^th Anniversary events

Outreach & Activism:

·
Update and add resources in the Women’s Center library and help manage/update the website

·
Generate fundraising and/or sponsorship ideas by working to partner with local and national organizations that may support the Women Center’s mission.

·
Write for the Women’s Center Newsletter about various topics and/or organize a group of interested students to create a feminist Zine on campus

·
Create ways to connect with non-traditional audiences about Women’s Center programs and services (e.g., Athletes, Greek Life, religious organizations, International Programs, Residence Life, etc.)

The Women’s Center is always looking for creative and inventive people to make a difference at UMBC.  

We're celebrating our 20th Anniversary and cordially invite you to join us watch the play, "The Laramie Project". We'll be meeting at the Women's Center and then walking over as a group. (Please see flyer and website below for more information.

When: Thursday, 12/01/11
Time: 3:40pm (Play begins at 4pm)
Where: The Women's Center (Commons, 004)

This is special FREE preview. Please join us!

The Women's Center is excited to partner with the Theatre Department in honor of our 20th Anniversary. Please join us in a free viewing of Laramie Project.

Much like our theme of 100,000 Stories, Laramie Project reflects on the stories of a community impacted by the killing of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man. The play is based on more than 400 interviews with about 100 Laramie residents, as well as journal entries from the members of Tectonic Theater Project, as they reflect on their own reactions to the crime and to the interviews they carried out. Structured as a documentary, it attempts to reenact the events that occurred on that fateful night.

More information to come regarding how you can participate in this event with the Women's Center!

Here's all the details on this performance:
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theatre Project

• Wednesday November 30, 8 p.m.--preview
• Thursday, December 1, 4 p.m.--free to the university community
• Friday, December 2, 8 p.m.--opening night
• Saturday, December 4, 8 p.m.
• Thursday, December 8, 8 p.m.
• Friday December 9, 8 p.m.
• Saturday, December 10, 8 p.m.
• Sunday, December 11, 2 p.m.