Spring 2012 - Clarion University

HaPPy
20th
anniversary
Women & gender
studies Program
For all of us 20 years is a milestone moment. For an academic program
which attempts to capture, express, inform and advance a critical piece of the
human condition, 20 years is a lifetime. the stories, quotes, and pictures from those
who have been touched by this program will move and inspire.
even in the year 2012, women and girls must continue to consciously create
and maintain their own space and place in society. the study of women and gender
provides us with a body of knowledge, a vocabulary, a women-centered way of
working and living within our currently male-dominated society. Women and men
are better for the knowledge and the prodigy that this knowledge has produced.
as the founding-mother of the Women and gender studies Program, dr deb
Burghardt is to be thanked, congratulated and exalted for her commitment to the
study of women and gender through her teaching, mentorship, research, and service
to clarion university students, the university and the community. deb, you are truly a
golden eagle!
Here’s to the next 20 years for the clarion university Women and gender
studies Program, may they be eagletastic!
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Karen M. Whitney, Ph.D.
President
Clarion University