WOMEN’S CENTER & WOMEN OF COLOR COALITION
“Women Bring their Movement to University” January 28, 1972. OSU Special
Collections and Archives Research Center. OSU’s The Daily Barometer.
Women’s Center Building. For more information on the building’s history, see: OSU
Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia Collection. Box 25, Folder
“Buildings - Benton Annex, Station Hosue, Presently Women’s Center.”
Women of Color Coalition. OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center.
Memorabilia Collection. Box 165, Folder “Women of Color Coalition at OSU.”
Sources Cited
(1) OSU Women’s Center Website. http://dce.oregonstate.edu/wc
(2) OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia Collection. Box
165, Folder “Women’s Center.” History of Oregon State University’s Women’s Center, 1999.
(3) By 1984, administratively the Women’s Center was under the Division of Student
Affairs and Dr. JoAnne Trow. They evaluated the programs and created a new mission
statement that highlighted support services and educational programming.
(4) Ibid.
(5) Outreach events have included the Clothesline Project against domestic violence,
Women’s Health Month, Take Back the Night March, the Women of Achievement
Awards, a Women’s Leadership Initiative, and a Conference on Intersecting Identities
and Interaction: Overcoming Barriers to Social Justice. For more detailed information
about the Women’s Center see the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research
Center RG 243 Women’s Center Records.
The collection documents the Center’s educational, research, and advocacy
roles at OSU; it reflects a variety of topics including child care resources; campus
safety; sexual assault prevention; salary parity for women faculty and
staff; equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students; ethnic, cultural
and racial diversity, and the campus climate. The records include reports,
publications, correspondence, committee records, surveys, course records,
conference and workshop materials, subject files, brochures, calendars,
handbooks, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
(6) OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia Collection. Box
152, Folder 2 “Student Protests.” “FW: Oregon Students United” email, March 10, 2014;
and, “[womenscenter] Daily Digest 3/11” email, March 11, 2014.
For more information about the 2014 Solidarity March see pages 36-37 of this guidebook.
(7) OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia Collection. Box
165, Folder “Women of Color Coalition at OSU.”
(8) OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. OH 21 Oregon State University
Cultural Centers Oral History Collection. Women’s Center Group Interview, 2015.
