Women's Studies Committee document and agenda

[Handwritten: Our first "committee" meeting w/ Dean Cox prior to appointment of official committee. Women's Studies History and Current Circumstances at Towson State College: Last fall Elaine Hedges and Sara COulter called together a number of faculty members interested in developing courses in Women's Studies at Towson State College. In the hope of gaining released time for planning and funds for developing a Women's Studies Program, we applied for an Education Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We recently received word that our grant was not approved, so we are without outside funds for the immediate future, although, we are considering reapplying elsewhere for '73-74 and may eventually be able to secure grant support. In the meantime, i.e. '73-73, the development of the Program will depend on the willingness of individual faculty members and their departments to prepare and offer Women's Studies courses out of regular department budgets and offerings. A small amount of support for faculty in preparing courses may be available from Mini-Grants (deadline for applications April 1) and Faculty Research Grants (deadline also April 1, I think--to be a notice in the paper). Administrative support for a Women;s Studies Program has taken the form of a public statement by President Fisher, a library budget, a Women's Center, and general approval and interest on the part of Dean Shaw, Dean Cox, and Administratirs in the Evening College. We would hope that modest funds might also be made available for the immediate operation of the Program. Assuming sufficient faculty and departmental support, it would seem appropriate in the near future to compile a list of all faculty in all departments who might be interested in participating in offering Women's Studies courses and to organize ourselves, possibly along the line of the International Relations' major, to handle the practical necessities of the Program. [Stamped: RECEIVED AUG 4 1972 DEAN OF THE COLLEGE TOWSON STATE COLLEGE]