Call for Nominations

Nominations Due: March 1, 2002
Applications Due: April 1, 2002

Students nominated should be women's studies majors or minors or should have completed substantial academic work in women's studies. They should also have shown commitment to activism, to the application of theory to practice, through work on issues of importance to women on campus or in the community.

Nominations. A student may be nominated by a faculty member, a staff member, another student or by him/herself. Nominations in writing are due to Wendy Kolmar, Director of Women's Studies, SWB 112, by MARCH 1, 2000.

Applications. Students nominated will be sent a brief application to complete. In addition to the application, the student should submit:

* a letter of support from a faculty member
* a letter about activism from anyone able to speak about the student's work--a student, faculty, staff member, community member.
* a brief personal essay
* an example of their best academic work in women's studies. Creative work -- painting, poetry etc. --should be accompanied by a brief statement discussing the student's sense of how the work is related to women's studies.

Completed applications must be returned to the women's studies office by April 1, 2002.

Selections will be made by a faculty/student committee. The award will be presented at the annual CLA awards ceremony in May and listed in the graduation program.

 

Bessie Stak Schiffman Award for Excellence in Women's Studies

The Bessie Stak Schiffman Award is given annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in both academic work in women's studies and in campus or community activism.  This award was created through the generosity of Prof. Ann Saltzman, Dept. of Psychology, the 1994 recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.  The award is named in memory of Ann's grandmother who, as a young woman, learned Hebrew and became the "prayer reader" for the women of her small synagogue, enabling them to participate in activities otherwise retricted to men.  Her story embodies the ways in  which women's knowledge can transform community. The first Schiffman was awarded in May of 1995.