Women’s Center announces spring events, co-curricular guide
The Ohio University Women’s Center has announced its slate of events for spring semester and has published a co-curricular guide to help faculty integrate the programming into their courses.
The spring 2021 events include guest lectures on navigating academia as a first-generation student, managing your online identity and handling imposter syndrome.
For the last several years, the Women’s Center has created a co-curricular guide that provides accompanying readings, questions and activities that can help faculty incorporate the programming into the academic curriculum. The guide “serves to bridge a gap between the office and academic units” to help them understand the learning outcomes for each event, explained M. Geneva Murray, director of the Women’s Center.
“We know that our students really enjoy hands-on learning opportunities to help them learn material in their classrooms,” she said.
The readings can help prepare students for the event or generate discussion after attending. In addition, students can use discussion questions as prompts for response papers, Murray noted.
The co-curricular guide is now available on the Women’s Center website.
The Women’s Center will sponsor numerous workshops and events throughout the semester, including:
Jan. 27, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. — These Are the Things No One Tells You: On Navigating PWI's and What Comes After, presented by Soraya Membreno
Membreno’s virtual talk will recount the experience of attending a predominantly white institution (PWI) as a first-generation immigrant. Participants will be encouraged to enter into open dialogue about the details of assimilation, feelings of tokenization, fitting into a new environment while still maintaining ties to home, and how being fully yourself can be an act of radical resistance.
The event is co-sponsored by the Division of Diversity and Inclusion and the AAUW student group. It will provide attendees with opportunities to reflect on their experiences at a PWI, as well as guidance for what we can do to improve higher education for those often most marginalized, Murray noted.
Feb. 24, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. — Fractured Freedom: Navigating Race, Identity and Self-Promotion Online, presented by Joshunda Sanders
Author Sanders will discuss how people who are marginalized may have a very different online experience than others. This event will prompt students to consider issues in the online environment – such as bullying or Zoom bombing – as they create their professional online brand and interact on social media communities. This event is also co-sponsored by the Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center and the AAUW student group.
March 12, noon to 1 p.m. — Rethinking Imposter Syndrome: How to Feel as Bright and Capable as They "Think" You Are, with Valerie Young (author of “The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women”)
Young, who previously spoke at Ohio University’s inaugural Women in Graduate School Conference, will discuss how imposter syndrome impacts a wide variety of people.
“This session really helps people think about tactics and tools they can use daily to improve their professional success,” said Murray, who added that the program will complement the imposter syndrome workshop the Women’s Center offers through University Human Resources.
The event is co-sponsored by the AAUW student group, Graduate College and Margaret Boyd Scholars Program.
The Women’s Center website has links to the full list of its spring workshops and events, as well as a link to its events presence on the Calendar of University Events.