- 1981
ASCAP approves the Women's Studies Program and the establishment of a Women's Studies Council. Women's Studies is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary program to be housed in the College of Arts and Sciences. The minor is also approved. Two students decide to pursue minors in women's studies.
- 1982
The first Women's Studies Colloquim (WSC) is established.
The Sexual Harassment Committee completes a policy for sexual harassment to be presented to the Dean of Arts and Sciences; with minor changes, it is accepted and implemented by the College of Arts and Sciences.
- 1983
President Cavazos asked the WSC to develop a policy, to expand the base of the program outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, and to provide a statement of the long range and short range goals of the council.
Marietta Morrisey from the Sociology Department assumes coordinatorship of the program.
Betty Friedan American feminist, activist, author speaks on "Changing Sex Roles, 1963-1983"
1984
The First All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Academia is held. A Steering Committee is created to arrange the conference details.
- 1985
Women's Studies is formally accepted as a program of study in the Interdisciplinary Master's Program administered by the Graduate School.
Nancy Hickerson from the Anthropology Department assumes the coordinatorship of the program.
At the request of the Office of Academic Affairs and with their support, the Women's Studies Council forms a committee to research women and men's salaries on the campus.
- 1986
The Texas Tech Association for the Advancement of Women in Higher Education (TTAAWHE) is formed. Its activities will include sponsorship of spring and fall receptions for women faculty and a colloquium series. These activities are coordinated by WS Council volunteers.
Laurie Churchill from the Classical and Romance Languages Department assumes coodinatorship of the program.
- 1987
A committee is formed to research the development of an entry-level WS course.
- 1989
Responsibility for the program is moved from the College of Arts and Sciences to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.
Gwen Sorell, from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, assumes the coordinatorship of the WS Program.
The Florence Brown En Avant Club Scholarship is endowed by Professor Preston Gott, Physics Department, in memory of Edna Maynard Gott. Edna Maynard Gott was a founding member of the Women's Studies Program.
Gloria Steinem, Emmy Award-winning writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist speaks in Lubbock.
- 1990
The WSC agrees to seek approval for an Introductory Women's Studies course WS 2300, after volunteers from the Council develop a course outline.
The Graduate Council gives approval for a WS 5300 Directed Studies course.
The WSC is given a permanet seat on the Affirmative Action Committee.
A Sexual Harassment Education project is approved by the WSC and the Coordinator of the WS Program begins making presentations at the request of other campus units. Cooperation with the Dean of Students office and the Office of Affirmative Action and Personnel Relations results in the appointment of the university wide Sexual Harassment Committee.
- 1992
The Academic Council approves WS 2300 an Introductory Women's Studies course. WS 4300 course will be kept as a capstone course for the WS minor, but will not be offered when the WS 2300 is offered because of funding.
- 1993
The Women's Studies Program joins the National Council for Research on Women.
- 1994
WS 2300 course is taught in the Spring semester for the first time. The course has been approved to fulfill the Individual and Group Behavior general education requirement.
An Ad Hoc Committee is formed to consider the ways that the WSC can mentor new women faculty.
- 1995
The Edna Maynard Gott Memorial Lending Library for Women's Studies is established with materials provided by Preston Gott and the College of Human Sciences.
The Annual All-University Conference expands to include women from other institutions throughout the Panhandle, South Plains and Permian Basin.
Gwen Sorell, Coordinator of the program, takes a development leave in the Spring semester. Mary Jane Hurst becomes the Acting Coordinator of Women's Studies during Gwen Sorell's absence.
- 1996
The Women's Studies Council begins the procedure to have Women's Studies courses crosslisted.
The Women's Studies Community Connection (WSCC), a community based group to support the Women's Studies Program, is formed.
The Women's Resource Network (WRN) is formed and is an officially registered student organization.
- 1997
Cross-listing of all courses relating to the Women's Studies minor is approved by the State Coordinating Board on Higher Education. This allows student transcripts to reflect their enrollment in Women's Studies courses.
The Women's Studies Community Connection designs and begins a Mentoring Program to pair Tech students with professional, community women that is in a field of work the Tech student is interested in.
Cross-listed WS courses are approved as meeting the same General Education requirement as their discipline-based conterparts.
An Ad Hoc Committee is formed to work on the issue of alleged rapes at fraternity houses as a way to look at implementing a rape prevention program.
- 1998
Women's Studies co-sponsors a visit from Dr. Yvonne Shafer, professor of theatre St. Johns University, who presents six class lectures and two public lectures during her visit.
Women's Studies, with the History Department, sponsors the visit of Dena Goodman, Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University, to Texas Tech.
- 1999
Visiting Scholar - Anita Claire Fellman, Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Old Dominion University.
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) is established on campus, and becomes a registered student organization.
A committee is established to consider how to include a Feminist Theories course into the minor.
A committee is established to investigate issues of funding, curriculum, and procedures in the concentration in Women's Studies within the Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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