Memo from Annette Chappell to Patricia Plante, 1985

Towson State University MEMORANDUM Date ...July 12, 1985 To: ......Provost Plante.. From: .Annette Chappell Subject: continuing secretarial assistance for mainstreaming project The 1985-86 academic year will be the third and final year of FIPSE funding for the curriculum transformation/mainstreaming project. The grant itself was one of the largest ever awarded fur curriculum integration, a tribute both to the strength of our Women's Studies program and faculty and to the strength of the program proposal. As I know you are aware, the proJect is enormously successful, bringing us national recognition of the most favorable sort and contributing to rejuvenation of faculty members as well as curriculum and to the production of some very solid new research. For example: Revisions, the project newsletter, has a current nationwide circulation of over 2000. Faculty, program directors,and administrators throughout the country are using our work on curriculum modification as a model. We were one of a small, very highly selected group of institutions invited to participate in a major Ford Foundation conference (Spring 1985) on the future of mainstreaming. TSU is one of seven institutions profiled as models in Toward Equity: An Action Manual for Women in Academe, by Karen Bogart (Assn. of American colleges-,-1984): the others are Hunter, the University of Delaware, MIT, Denison, Wellesley, and Spelman (good company, as was our top ranking in Everywoman's Guide, 1982, where we were rated on a par with Ohio State and Berkeley). The project directors have been invited to serve as consultants on mainstreaming/curriculum development for • Johns Hopkins University • UMBC • The Association of Independent Schools of Maryland The Project directors have been invited to give presentations at national conferences, including the MLA and the National Women's Studies Association annual meeting. Participating faculty have been presenting the results of project-related research at professional conferences including the Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, the American Psychological Association, Alpha Kappa Delta Symposium, and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.