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WRC 08-09 Highlights

Honors and Recognitions

  • Carmen Anderson:  Honoree, Aimee Shattuck Award for Service to Women
  • Carmen Anderson: Recipient, President's Diversity Award
  • Blythe Pavlik: Honoree, Aimee Shattuck Award for Service to Women
  • Blythe Pavlik:  Recipient, President's Award for Outstanding University Service
  • Zena Piccolo: Honoree, NSEW Student Employee of the Year
  • Zena Piccolo: Recipient, NAACP Outstanding Ally and Community Partner Award
  • Zena Piccolo: Recipient, Aimee Shattuck Award for Service to Women
  • Zena Piccolo: Recipient, PSU Pride Award

Major initiatives and accomplishments:

  • Achieved long standing goal of creating an identity for the WRC lounge as a comfortable meeting and resting place for students and staff alike
  • Volunteer program has matured to include exceptionally high levels of commitment and accountability among record numbers of front desk workers, so many, in fact, that we've extended our lounge hours.
  • Partnered with four capstones (including this coming summer)
  • Offered three sections of the Returning Women's Workshop with record enrollment each time
  • Increased visibility of advocacy program, resulting in a marked increase in the volume of students seeking services

Highlights of Off-Campus Collaborations:

  • Site partner for Annual Nat'l Conference with the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force and the National Organization of Men Against Violence
  • Collaborated with Bitch Magazine, Willamette Weekly, KBOO Radio, to host a four part national speaker's series:  Feminist Perspectives on Pop Culture made possible by a grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities
  • Partnered with the Portland Women's Crisis Line, the Women's Resource Center at PCC Sylvania, The Illumination Project and others to host an outstanding and well attended Take Back the Night
  • Partnered with the Tri-County Sexual Assault Task Force to bring the educational presentation: "Drunk Sex"
  • Partnered with American Association of University Women to host their Annual Luncheon in honor of High Achieving High School Girl

Highlights of On-Campus Collaborations:

  • Established well attended weekly support group co-sponsored with the QRC
  • Monthly Faculty Favorite Lecture Series brings partnerships across campus and consistently shows excellent attendance
  • Feminisms Conference:  hugely successful attendance of approximately 100 people from both on and off campus.  Community Partners included Allies Against Rape Culture, Student Parent Services, Las Mujeres, Office of Diversity and Equity, and NAACP
  • Established biweekly support group for students of color, The Sisters' Circle in collaboration with NAACP

Event Stats:

  • Events sponsored by the WRC:  49
  • Events Co-sponsored with various community partners:  38

Meetings in the WRC:

  • 14 single event meetings
  • 8 recurrent meetings of student groups, capstones, or departments

 

Whew!

 

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