The Susan B. Anthony Women's Center

The Women's Center at MCLA serves as a resource for the entire college community, providing educational development, service projects, and community outreach. The Women's Center houses a small library with academic books on women's rights, statistics, and inspiring women, which students may use for research projects or presentations. Students also may elect to minor in Women's Studies.

Women's Center Educational Goals

• To develop programs to generate an increased awareness of women's achievements and struggles around the globe historically and today
• To empower women to work for the strategic elimination of gender oppression, harassment, discrimination and violence through proactive instruction, conferences, service projects and presentations
• To highlight the significance of feminist theory and scholarship as an instrument for transforming reality, thereby closing the gap between academics and activism, theory and practice
• To encourage awareness of citizenship through community service, healthy lifestyles and gender relationships, civic duty and artistic expression
• To reinforce our commitment that women's rights are human rights and thus oppression of women everywhere is a universal concern

2007 - 2008 Women's Center Events and Campaigns

• Gender Equity Bake Sale
• The Clothesline Project
• MCLA United Lunch
• Dinner and Conversation with Charmaine Neville
• Adilah Barnes, I Am That I Am: Woman, Black
• Get Out the Vote Night: Iron Jawed Angels
• Stereotalk: How We Use Language to Diss and Dismiss
• Jennifer Miller of Circus Amok
• School Supply Collection for the Helen Berube Teen Parent Program
• Open Mic Night Featuring Brandee Simone
• Cell phone collection for survivors of domestic violence

Dr. Susan Birns, Director
375 Church Street North Adams, MA 01247-4100
Phone: 413-662-5497 Email: womenctr@mcla.edu