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Accomplishments

2008

MCIX: Building Global Connections: Envisioning Women's Studies and Women's Issues on a Global Context - St. John's University, New York, NY.

2007

NAWCHE's speaker series brings T. Deenan Sharpley-Whiting (Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women) and Susan Faludi (The Terror Dream) to speak at Boston College.

2006

MCVIII: Enacting Social Justice: Women in Catholic Higher Education - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

2005

NAWCHE starts a speaker series bringing guest speakers Peggy Orenstein (Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World), Sarah S. Willie (Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race), and Liza Featherstone (Selling Women Short: The Landmark battle for workers Rights at Walmart) to Boston College.

2004

MCVII: Creating Circles of Conversation: Women of the Academy, the Church, and the Community - Providence College, Providence, R.I.

2003

NAWCHE Executive Director Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Administrative Coordinator Denise Leckenby publish the book Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences, and Social Justice.

2002

MCVI: Bridging the Divide: Connecting Activism and Academia through Social Justice - Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.

2001

Attended National Women's Studies (NWSA) conference June 13-17 to discuss issues including avenues for building NAWCHE's connections with NWSA, the climate for Women's Studies at Catholic institutions, institutional membership outreach, and making connections with new members.

2000

MCV: Women and Women's Studies in the New Millennium: Forging New Models for Leadership and Change - Boston College, Boston, MA.

1999

NAWCHE launches a national survey on the status of women studies at Catholic colleges and universities.

1998

MCIV: Ways Forward: The Status of Women and Women's Studies - Trinity College, Washington, D.C.

1997

Created a network of Faculty Representatives at all Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide, encouraging all representatives to begin the necessary conversations between the Jesuit Community, students, and faculty at their home institutions.

1996

MCIII: Listening to Women: A Challenge to Change - Boston College, Boston, MA.

1995

Produced new resources for our collection including a syllabi collection, Teaching the Personal: Women's Studies on the Catholic Campus.

1994

The NAWCHE Newsflash, a periodic up-date, was added to the NAWCHE publications.

MCII: Claiming the Past, Shaping the Future: Women in Catholic Higher Education - Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1993

Increased individual contacts and membership base to over 300 faculty and administrators and institutional sponsorship to six schools.

1992

Held the first national conference for women in Catholic higher education, Making Connections (MCI): Enhancing Women's Studies, Research, and Academic Lives - Boston College, Boston, MA; over 250 participants from 85 institutions.

1991

Established the first National Mailing List of more than 5000 women working in Catholic higher education.
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