The Women’s and Gender Studies Program hosts the National Women’s Music Festival each July. The Festival is the oldest running women’s music venue in North America.
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program has partnered with The Hile Group, a local performance consulting business, to articulate a five- year plan in line with the College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan 2005-2010.
Women’s and Gender Studies offers six local community internship programs.
We offer two scholarships: The Dorothy E. Lee Scholarship and Grant Program for nontraditional-age students returning to ISU and the Luellen Laurenti Scholarship and Women’s Studies Achievement Award.
Selected graduate students and program minors present their research and creative work at our annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium. The Symposium, now in its twelfth year, includes a keynote by a significant women's studies scholar from outside Illinois State University. The collected papers from each symposium are published in an in-house anthology.
The Women’s and Gender Studies program partners with the ISU Women’s Mentoring Network to support nontraditional-age women returning to ISU.
Our program partners with the Feminist Lead Activist Movement to Empower (FLAME), a registered student organization that educates the campus and community about social justice issues. We co-sponsor annual events such as Take Back the Night, The Clothesline Project, and a fundraiser performance of the Vagina Monologues .
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program started the Bloomington-Normal Clothesline Project to raise community awareness on issues of gender- based violence.
