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The Torch (Summer 2023), Crtp
The Torch (Summer 2023), Crtp
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
"We help schools think and talk about issues related to race and skin color, national origin and ancestry, religion, disabilities, gender (including gender identity and expression), and sexual orientation."
- Civil Rights Team Spotlight
- Local Collaborations
- Civil Rights Team Shoutouts
- Thanking our Retiring Advisors
- Thanks for reading!
Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program (University Of Maine) Records, 1970-2016, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program (University Of Maine) Records, 1970-2016, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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In the fall of 1975 three UMaine faculty members, Ann Acheson, Jan Kulberg, and Jane Pease, taught UMaine's first class in women's studies: "Women in Society" "...an interdisciplinary analysis of women's roles from an anthropological, sociological, psychological, and historical perspective." Other courses would follow, but while the courses counted for credit, those who taught the classes were not paid. The Interdisciplinary approach to studying women and the social construction of gender evolved from work spearheaded by Dr. JoAnn Fritsche, Director of Equal Opportunity in developing strategies for the inclusion of women's experiences and perspectives in the educational process. After initially …