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Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben, Emily Abel, Deborah Rosenfelt, Peg Strobel, Shirley Harkess, Kathleen Blumhagen, Loretta Seppanen, Sandy Rubaii, E. R.

Women's Studies Quarterly

It's been a little more than a year now that I've been reporting on the Association in these columns, a little more than two years since there has been a National Women's Studies Association to report on. When friends and supporters ask, "How is it going?'" I've been forced to give a rather cryptic-seeming reply: "It's going steadily better, so even more is expected; but we hardly have resources to meet the original expectation, so sometimes it feels like it's going worse."

Often the next question from members has been, "When are we going to have the Convention?'" A Convention, …

Farewell To Joan Malory Webber, Nancy Nowik

Women's Studies Quarterly

Joan Malory Webber died last year on October 14 in a climbing accident near Mt. Rainier. She was a Professor of English at the University of Washington and a respected Renaissance scholar, whose death calls to mind the deaths (in the same month) of the two women on the American Women's Anapuma Expedition and the recent death of another great scholar, Jane English, also in a climbing accident. Each of these four deaths sends those of us who do not climb back to Adrienne Rich's poem "Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev," the leader of a women's expedition that perished in a …

The Communicator, December 19, 1978, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on December 19, 1978.

The Reporter, November 15, 1978

The Reporter

The Reporter was Baruch College's evening session newspaper. Founded in 1923, when Baruch College was still part of City College, the Reporter billed itself as "the Oldest Evening Session College Newspaper Published in the United States." It ceased publication in 2002.

The Ticker, October 25, 1978

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Reporter, October 18, 1978

The Reporter

The Reporter was Baruch College's evening session newspaper. Founded in 1923, when Baruch College was still part of City College, the Reporter billed itself as "the Oldest Evening Session College Newspaper Published in the United States." It ceased publication in 2002.

The Communicator, October 12, 1978, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on October 12, 1978.

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Editorial: "But What "Is" A Women's Studies Program?", The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Oberlin College, October 1, 1978 "But What IS a Women's Studies Program?"

In several respects a Women's Studies Program is more difficult to define today than it was eight or nine years ago, when there were two of them—at San Diego State University and Cornell. Those two programs had a couple of characteristics in common: They were campus-based, academic programs that offered courses for credit to undergraduates. They had been begun by faculty and students conscious of the "political" statement inherent in announcing that a group of courses had become a "program."

Graduate Programs In Women's Studies, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

Women's Studies Programs offering graduate degrees recently responded to the following questions:

1. What is the curricular shape and major emphasis of your program? How flexible is it? How many (and which) credits and other requirements must be completed for the degree? Name your degree(s).

2. What kinds of students are you interested in? What are your official (and unofficial) requirements and expectations of students? Provide relevant information about application deadlines, interviews etc.

3. What is the cost of your program? Are forms of financial aid or teaching assistantships available? Is housing available or especially difficult or expensive to obtain? …

Nwsa News And Views, Elaine Reuben, Charol Shakeshaft, Kay Towns, Ann H. Beuf, Jackie Macaulay

Women's Studies Quarterly

Elaine Reuben

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

Summer is traditionally known as a "slow" season in the Washington area, and an organization like NWSA, involving so many students and teachers, also seems to "take a break" between semesters. I can't speak for the Federal folk—except to note that July's march on the Capitol was followed by their extending the deadline for ratification of the ERA—but our work continued.

A Student's Journal: On Menstruation, Yolette Garaud

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is an excerpt from a journal written for the Introduction to Women's Studies course taught this year by Naomi Rosenthal at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Yolette Garaud is not a native English speaker; she was born in Haiti in 1952 and came to the United States in 1971. She is now an undergraduate at Old Westbury, where she is majoring in biochemistry. Unable to write the first journal assignment, she produced the following piece within six weeks of the beginning of the course. Interestingly, according to the instructor, it was being asked to …

Closeup On Women's Studies Courses: Feminist Theory And Practice, Melanie Kaye

Women's Studies Quarterly

This list is compiled annually as an educational service of the Women's Studies Newsletter Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568) and the National Women's Studies Association (4102 Foreign Languages Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), and it is available from both. Compilers in 1978 were Sharon Hagan and Elaine Reuben for NWSA; Shirley Frank and Florence Howe for the Women's Studies Newsletter.

Editorial, Florence Howe

Women's Studies Quarterly

I am sending in this editorial from West Berlin, where, as visiting professor of women's studies at the Kennedy Institute for American Studies, I am teaching two seminars on women writers this summer. Mainly teachers and teachers-to-be are enrolled in the courses.

Major issues are being debated here in Berlin this summer. What is the future of women's studies at the Free University of the Kennedy Institute, where the last of three feminist faculty members will be leaving in March? And where there are no plans for replacing any of the three junior faculty members whose contracts have ended? A …

Front Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

On Novels By Black American Women: A Bibliographical Essay, Rita B. Dandridge

Women's Studies Quarterly

The following is part of a bibliographical essay which will appear in Black Women's Studies, to be published by The Feminist Press. The complete essay goes on to include extensive bibliographical information on individual Black women novelists.

Novels written by Black American women have been woefully neglected by scholars, Black and white. They have been mentioned in footnotes, cited in cross-references, tucked away in bibliographies, and glossed over in reviews and surveys. Few are mentioned in the Encyclopedia Americana. No comprehensive study of the novel by Black American women exists. To date, no individual Black American female novelist and her …

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Nwsa News, Elaine Reuben, Elsa Greene, Billie Wahlstrom, Maija S. Blaubergs, Blanche Hersh, Berenice A. Carroll

Women's Studies Quarterly

Elaine Reuben

FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE

The 1978-79 academic year promises to be an important and productive time for NWSA.

I am very pleased to be able to report that the Association has received a small grant from The Ford Foundation, $25,000 for a period of fifteen months, to support and strengthen this office and its capacity to reach and serve persons and groups working in women's studies.

This grant will make it possible to prepare and distribute membership and other Association materials throughout the country, will allow the Association's Steering Committee to meet and to communicate more effectively with …

The Communicator, June 12, 1978, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on June 12, 1978.

The Communicator, May 11, 1978, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on May 11, 1978.

The Ticker, May 10, 1978

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

El Coquí: Volume 8, Number 8 (1978), Hostos Community College

Gerald J. Meyer Save Hostos Collection

A news publication of Hostos Community College of the City University of New York.

The Ticker, April 26, 1978

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Communicator, April 19, 1978, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on April 19, 1978.

Setting Auditing Standards - Whose Responsibility?, David Solomons

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, April 12, 1978

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Reporter, April 04, 1978

The Reporter

The Reporter was Baruch College's evening session newspaper. Founded in 1923, when Baruch College was still part of City College, the Reporter billed itself as "the Oldest Evening Session College Newspaper Published in the United States." It ceased publication in 2002.

Newsbriefs, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Closeup: Women's Studies Department At San Diego, Marilyn J. Boxer

Women's Studies Quarterly

Despite hazards both external and internal, the Women's Studies Program at San Diego State University (SDSU) has now survived eight years, has been strengthened in the process, and has moved in new directions. Designated a "program" in 1970, it is in fact a functioning "department," thanks to two successive supportive deans.

Funded initially by the SDSU Foundation in a period of militant feminism, in 1974 Women's Studies was assimilated into the administrative structure of the College of Arts and Letters. In the California State University system, funding for academic programs is determined almost exclusively by student enrollment. Departmental status for …

Back Matter, The Feminist Press

Women's Studies Quarterly

No abstract provided.