Description:

Positive change for women and other gender minorities in educational settings has been brought forth incrementally and only through their extraordinary contributions and struggles. For the past 50 years, Women and Gender Equity Centers (WGS) have served as critical sites of intellectual engagement and feminist praxis and continue to play a central role in advancing gender equity and inclusion in higher education.

By Degrees: Gender. Education. And Progress will consider the persistence of institutionalized sexism and other forms of inequality in higher education, the expansive contemporary commitments of WGS centers and other academic staff, and the multifaceted structural actions still required to transform higher education into a social institution that is equitable and liberating for all.

Opening Remarks 

Deana Lewis, M.Ed

Executive Director,

National Women's Studies Association

Panelists 

Angela Clark-Taylor, PhD

Director, Flora Stone Mather

Center for Women, Case Western

Reserve University

Kaitlyn Legg, M.Ed

Associate Director, CARE Network,

University of Rochester.

Former Director, LGBT Center

University of North Florida

Natalie Bennett, PhD

Director, Women's Leadership and

Resource Center, University of

Illinois at Chicago

Ann Russo, PhD

Director, The Women's Center

Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

DePaul University