Join WCFR to discuss the history of gender-based pricing and ongoing efforts to reduce that gap. In 1994, consumers were made aware of price discrepancies among clothing items (ladies’ blouses vs. men’s dress shirts) based on gender. We will review efforts to reduce the pricing gap and discuss why, thirty years later, we continue to […]
Presentation and discussion with Alejandra Campoverdi, author of First Gen: A Memoir, about navigating college and social mobility as a first-generation Latina. Sponsored by the MS Humanities Council and The Columbus Community Read Partners.
Presentation and discussion with Alejandra Campoverdi, author of First Gen: A Memoir, about navigating college and social mobility as a first-generation Latina. Sponsored by the MS Humanities Council and The Columbus Community Read Partners.
Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.
Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.
Presented by the Residence Hall Association and Housing, this two-hours-long documentary and drama will focus on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Join Fant Memorial Library for another installment of their Spring Book Talk. This year’s book is Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson, and this month’s discussion will focus on chapters 8-11.
At the club’s first session, members will discuss Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. Lessa Harvey, an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College, created this feminist book club after working at Friendly City Books as a Nancy Yates Community Engagement Fellow in the summer of 2025.
Catherine Simone Gray–also called “Unsilenced Woman” and author of Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure–gathers women, mothers, and caregivers to explore how writing can be an ally in our living and loving. Part of the Women’s College Colloquium Speaker Series. All are welcome.
Kimberly Griffin is a seasoned revenue generation expert with over two decades of fundraising, marketing, sales, and advertising experience. She is also the founding publisher and chief revenue officer of the Mississippi Free Press, a statewide nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focusing on solutions-based journalism. She received her B.S. in journalism from The W. Read her full […]
At the club’s second session, members will discuss The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick. Lessa Harvey, an 1884 Fellow in the Women’s College, created this feminist book club after working at Friendly City Books as a Nancy Yates Community Engagement Fellow in the summer of 2025.
Want to learn how to make your money go further? The first step is to ensure that you’re not spending everything you earn and that you’re earning as much as you should. In these back-to-back workshops, a representative from Regions Bank will first review personal budgeting before The W’s own Ali Glasgow covers salary negotiation. […]