The Center for Womens Studies at West Virginia University has issued a call for proposals for its 2007 Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Womens Studies Teaching and Learning. The deadline is March 1.
The Stitzel Endowment was established to ensure a continuing and vital presence for womens studies as an academic discipline at WVU . Any faculty member may apply.
Activities eligible for funding includebut are not limited tothe creation of new courses or the reconfiguring of current ones increase and enhance womens 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 Womens 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 Womens Studies Honors Weekend ceremony April 21.
Stitzel is recognized as thefounding motherof womens 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 womens studies program and was also the first director of the Center for Womens 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 Womens Studies, at
barabara.howe@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-2339, ext. 1155.
The Center for Womens Studies is part of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.