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Proposals for Women’s Studies endowment accepted until March 3

Morgantown, W.Va., January 25, 2008: The Center for Women’s Studies in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University has issued a call for proposals for the 2008 Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women’s Studies Teaching and Learning. The deadline to apply for the endowment is March 3.

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, regardless of rank, status, or gender may submit a proposal. Activities eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, designing new courses or reconceptualizing existing courses in order to increase women’s studies knowledge at WVU. One proposal will be funded for a maximum amount of $4,000.

Interested individuals must complete the application form available online at http://www.wvu.edu/~wmst/financial.htm. The deadline for receipt of the application in the center for Women’s Studies is Monday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m. A committee of Women’s Studies Faculty Associates will determine which proposal will be funded. Decisions will be announced to the applicants by March 30. The successful applicant will be recognized at the Center for Women’s Studies Honors Weekend ceremony on April 12.

Professor Judith Gold Stitzel is 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, and in 1980, she became the first coordinator of the women’s studies program. She was also the first director of the Center for Women’s Studies from 1984 to 1992. Under Dr. Stitzel’s leadership, the Women’s Studies Program grew into an established academic discipline. Upon her retirement, she established the Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women’s Studies Teaching and Learning.

The goals of the endowment are to make permanently available to the University community the new and expanding knowledge that women’s studies scholarship creates and to institutionalize women’s studies knowledge into the fabric of teaching at WVU.

For more information, please contact Dr. Barb Howe, director of the Center for Women’s Studies, at 304-293-2339, ext. 1155, or at Barbara.Howe@mail.wvu.edu.

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	NEWS Proposals for Women’s Studies endowment accepted until March 3 Morgantown, W.Va., January 25, 2008: The Center for Women’s Studies in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University has issued a call for proposals for the 2008 Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women’s Studies Teaching and Learning. The deadline to apply for the endowment is March 3. 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, regardless of rank, status, or gender may submit a proposal. Activities eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, designing new courses or reconceptualizing existing courses in order to increase women’s studies knowledge at WVU. One proposal will be funded for a maximum amount of $4,000. Interested individuals must complete the application form available online at http://www.wvu.edu/~wmst/financial.htm. The deadline for receipt of the application in the center for Women’s Studies is Monday, March 3 at 4:00 p.m. A committee of Women’s Studies Faculty Associates will determine which proposal will be funded. Decisions will be announced to the applicants by March 30. The successful applicant will be recognized at the Center for Women’s Studies Honors Weekend ceremony on April 12. Professor Judith Gold Stitzel is 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, and in 1980, she became the first coordinator of the women’s studies program. She was also the first director of the Center for Women’s Studies from 1984 to 1992. Under Dr. Stitzel’s leadership, the Women’s Studies Program grew into an established academic discipline. Upon her retirement, she established the Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women’s Studies Teaching and Learning. The goals of the endowment are to make permanently available to the University community the new and expanding knowledge that women’s studies scholarship creates and to institutionalize women’s studies knowledge into the fabric of teaching at WVU. For more information, please contact Dr. Barb Howe, director of the Center for Women’s Studies, at 304-293-2339, ext. 1155, or at Barbara.Howe@mail.wvu.edu. W-V-U