Friends of Women's Studies
Virginia's Purse Award
The Virginia's Purse Award will be presented again this year, deadline
for applications is April 30, 2004.
This year's Virginia's Purse
Award went to Rachel Hynson, (5/19/04)
One award of $500.00.
Application Criteria: Student currently enrolled as a Women's Studies
major at KU.
Application Procedure: Nominations may be self-nominations or nominations
from the faculty. The applicant must submit the following materials:
- A cover letter that includes name, address, phone, e-mail and evening
phone.
- Proof of Jr. or Sr. standing and major in WS (Arts form will do)
- A short essay (1-2 pages typed, double-spaced) that discusses your
activism, scholarship, and/or leadership in women's issues.
- A letter of recommendation.
Submit to: Friends of Women's Studies Virginia Purse University of Kansas
213 Bailey Hall Attn.: Jan Emerson Lawrence, KS 66045 OR submit electronically
to jemerson@ku.edu.
Sponsored by the Friends of KU Women's Studies Program
If only [women] had left their money, like their fathers and their
grandfathers before them, to found fellowships and lectureships and prizes
and scholarships appropriated to the use of their own sex, we might have...looked
forward...to a pleasant and honourable lifetime spent in the shelter of
one of the liberally endowed professions. We might have been sitting contemplative
on the steps of the Parthenon, or going at ten to an office and coming
home...to write a little poetry... from: A Room Of One's Own by Virginia
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The Friends of Womens Studies at the University of Kansas is a group of concerned
individuals working to :
- Ensure the future of the Women's Studies program at KU
- Raise funds for scholarships and research initiatives
- Facilitate access to WS faculty for the community at large
- Mentor students already involved in the WS program at KU
- Highlight the many contributions made by the WS program
A Brief Herstory in Time
The FoWS have sponsored several events including:
- Ann Garvin, national president of Church Women United; Sharing her first-hand
view of the the Los Angeles riots' aftermath
- Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Menninger Foundation; Speaking on "Lies in
Womens' Lives"
- Faculty lecture series which addressed :
- Self Esteem
- Leadership
- Educational Equity
- Rape
- Live hook-up to share in recognizing the accomplishments made by Women all
over the world since the Beijing conference on the Rights of Women in 1995.
- Right to Die Debate which provided a forum for considering issues individuals
face when their health or the health of a loved one fails
The Friends of KU Women's Studies exists to increase awareness and understanding
of the philosophies, values, and activities uniquely applicable to women and
girls and to promote the growth of the Women's Studies Program at the University
of Kansas.
Questions? Contact Ann Cudd @ 785-864-2301, OR acudd@ku.edu.
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