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“Medusa: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Philosophy,” housed at Mississippi University for Women, has published its inaugural issue. The online journal is the nation’s first undergraduate journal dedicated to feminist philosophy. Created by Jill Drouillard, assistant professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Medusa is a peer-reviewed journal…

Categories: Arts & Sciences, Faculty & Staff Announcements, News, Women's Mission

The Center for Women’s Research & Public Policy (CWRPP) at Mississippi University for Women welcomed a new class of leaders to the NEW Leadership® Mississippi program this week. Each summer the program brings together college students from across the political spectrum and from a wide range of racial, ethnic, educational,…

Categories: Arts & Sciences, Faculty & Staff Announcements, News

Mississippi University for Women’s family science program recently achieved recertification as a certified family life educator (CFLE). Dr. Cecilia Brooks and Dr. Dorothy Berglund Certified programs, of which there are more than 130 throughout the United States and Canada, are reevaluated every five years. Achieving recertification in and of itself…

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The fall of 2022 turned out to be an important one for Mississippi University for Women senior Frederica Hargrove, they just didn’t know it at the time. “My Introduction to Public History instructor assigned me to discover a piece of local history that I believed deserved to be a historic…

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When Sheryl Jefferies set out to begin her capstone project, she had no idea it would take on a life of its own. Being a transfer, non-traditional student from Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Jefferies had never even heard of The W. But when researching schools to complete…

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Arts & Sciences

The W launches the first undergraduate journal of feminist philosophy

NEW Leadership® program encourages women to pursue politics

The W’s family science program celebrates CFLE recertification

Telling the untold: Hargrove’s capstone project tackles African American education, a local school lost to time

Capstone project opens doors internationally for Jefferies

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