Closeup on Women\u27s Studies Courses: Women\u27s Image: An Interdisciplinary Introductory Course

Women\u27s Image: Myth and Reality, the introductory course in the Women\u27s Studies Program at the State University College, New Paltz, provides an experience that concurrently maintains a network among women faculty on campus and exposes students to women\u27s studies. It encourages students to reflect on their personal experiences as they study the images of women in society

Reaching out to the Community: The Mothers and Daughters Conference at SUNY/New Paltz

Last spring we held an intergenerational Mothers and Daughters Conference at SUNY/New Paltz that was attended by over 350 people, many of them grandmothers, mothers, and daughters from the same families. The impetus for the weekend conference had come from a group of women\u27s studies faculty and students who, the Mother/ Daughter Relationship among Black mother / daughter relationship to a feminist during a discussion of the significant changes in our lives that involvement in women\u27s studies had catalyzed, had begun to consider how exciting it would be if our mothers could share some of our new perspectives. At the same time, it occurred to us that we, as a Women\u27s Studies Program, could engage mothers or grandmothers and daughters off campus and get them involved in our Program

Open minde to equality : a sourcesbook of learning activitice to promote race

xiv, 273 p.; 27 cm

Schniedewind, Nancy, A Short History of the Ambush of Public Education, pp. 4-22 in Nancy Schniedewind and Mars Shevin, eds., Educational Courage: Resisting the Ambush of Public Education. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.

Summarizes the takeover of public education in the United States by business and technical interests