As with viritually every entity, colleges and universities are looking to save money. Courses and programmes that are perceived to not add value to the bottom line are likely at risk of elimination.
Potente Susurro at Like A Whisper explains how Florida Atlantic University has chosen to eliminate its women's studies programme, one of the rare schools offering an advanced degree in the discipline.
Menstrual Poetry shares how womens and queer studies are at risk in Georgia.
This is an alarming trend, and reminds me of how Lillian Faderman wrote of the purging of women's professional education advancees in To Believe In Women.
In the late 1920s, new writings were beginning to portray gays as sick minded folk, and it led to purging faculty at women's schools, removing women from the presidency of such schools, all because they suspected them of being gay. What resulted were curricula no longer geared to send women into professional positions, and instead created domestic arts programmes focused on running and managing homes.
Cindy at Fringe writes that Womens studies are first on the chopping block.
I get queasy thinking we are the ones on vulnerable yet again, and think schools with only women in the student body will once again be asked to carry the day.
Potente Susurro at Like A Whisper explains how Florida Atlantic University has chosen to eliminate its women's studies programme, one of the rare schools offering an advanced degree in the discipline.
Menstrual Poetry shares how womens and queer studies are at risk in Georgia.
This is an alarming trend, and reminds me of how Lillian Faderman wrote of the purging of women's professional education advancees in To Believe In Women.
In the late 1920s, new writings were beginning to portray gays as sick minded folk, and it led to purging faculty at women's schools, removing women from the presidency of such schools, all because they suspected them of being gay. What resulted were curricula no longer geared to send women into professional positions, and instead created domestic arts programmes focused on running and managing homes.
Cindy at Fringe writes that Womens studies are first on the chopping block.
I get queasy thinking we are the ones on vulnerable yet again, and think schools with only women in the student body will once again be asked to carry the day.
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