The UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards were initiated in 1994 to acknowledge the ties and shared concerns among administrators, faculty, staff, and students within Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies, and to uphold a continuing commitment to Plan 2008: Education Quality through Racial and Ethnic Diversity. That commitment continues through support for multiple accessibility and diversity efforts throughout the UW System. This event is co-sponsored by the UW System Women’s Studies Consortium and the UW System Office of Diversity Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Annually each UW system institution is asked to identify at least one recipient of the UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards. The honorees can be faculty, students, staff or community members who meet the award criteria. In addition to acknowledgments by their home campus or institution, the honorees are invited to the annual UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards ceremony and for statewide recognition. The award ceremony takes place in conjunction with the annual Wisconsin Women’s Studies and LGBTQ conference. This year’s conference theme is Power, Politics, and Performance in Women's Studies and LGBTQ Studies. The conference has been moved to fall and will be held October 5-6, 2012 on the UW-Oshkosh campus.
Nominations are solicited by each UW institution with a March 1, 2012 deadline. Watch here for announced recipients later in March 2012.
If you would like to attend the awards luncheon but do not plan to attend the conference you can either register for the luncheon and awards ceremony online on the conference website here or send a check for $10 per person made out to UW-System and the names of the attendees to: WOCE Awards, WSC UW System, 1632 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Please include an email address for confirmation – if no email address is indicated, your mailing address should be included. The awards luncheon is included in the registration fees for conference attendees.
