Dr. Malia Schimminger, Director of the Career Services and Professional Development Center, will lead a CV and cover letter writing workshop to help you prepare for future jobs, internships, and graduate and professional school applications. This event is part of the Women's College Colloquium Series. For more information, contact womenscollege@muw.edu, or call 662.370.0758.
Dana McLean, Mississippi State Representative for District 39, will speak on her work fighting for legislation to mandate and streamline the process for victims of sexual assault to receive access to care and justice. Representative McLean is a recent winner of the 2025 Angel Award for advocacy. For more information about this event or others […]
1884 Fellow Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club returns for Fall 2026 with a discussion of Charlotte Perkin's Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper." Join us at Friendly City Books in downtown Columbus for a conversation about this early feminist text.
Dr. Jaime Harker, Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi and owner of Violet Valley Bookstore, the only feminist queer bookstore in Mississippi, will speak about her forthcoming book, Sapphfic: Queer Reading and Writing in the 21st Century. This event, celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, is part […]
1884 Fellow Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club will meet for a conversation about Audre Lorde's collection of essays and speeches in Sister Outsider.
In this interactive financial literacy workshop, Dr. Cecilia Brooks, Associate Professor of Family Science at MUW, will demonstrate how contextual factors influence family financial and consumption practices. Her research interests include financial decision-making and family financial socialization. This event is part of the Women's College Colloquium Series. For more information, contact womenscollege@muw.edu, or call 662.370.0758.
In this final book club of fall 2026, we will discuss Jacqueline Harpman's newly translated speculative fiction novel, I Who Have Never Known Men. The book explores female friendship in a post-apocalyptic setting. 1884 Lessa Harvey's Feminist Book Club began through her collaboration with Friendly City Books during the Nancy Yates Community Engagement Program.
Located in historic Columbus, Mississippi, The W was founded in 1884 as the first state-supported college for women in the United States. Today, the university is home to 2,371 students in more than 70 majors and concentrations and has educated men for 40 years. The university is nationally recognized for low student debt, community and social mobility which empowers students to BE BOLD.
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