Mission

Creating and sustaining a community of scholar-activists who: understand systems of gender and sexuality; generate and apply intersectional feminist and queer perspectives; challenge structural inequalities; and work for social justice.

Vision

The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program will be a community of excellent faculty and students who share a vision of diverse gender justice, providing a theory-based and broadly engaged curriculum that focuses on transforming the campus and the larger community through rigorous scholarship as a foundation for teaching, learning, vocation, and civic life.

Values

• Building communities that ensure gender justice
• Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research
• Liberal education and academic excellence in learning, teaching, and research
• Rigorous scholarship by faculty and students as a foundation for teaching, learning, vocation, and civic life
• Diverse, innovative, and effective teaching
• Assessment as a means to evaluate and improve student learning
• Culture of collegiality and collaboration
• Diversity, civic discourse, and democratic communities
• Experiential and high-impact learning
• International perspectives and experiences