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The Bloomfield College Women’s Studies Program, Mission Statement

"The Women's Studies Program exists to empower women at Bloomfield College to correct the injustices that we face in our daily lives and to advance gender equality by developing full local and global citizenship through Women's Studies courses and grassroots student-centered activism."

Key words: empower, correct, advance

A full local and global citizen is an equal, active and effective participant in public life with the goal of helping human beings cooperate for the mutual benefit and advancement of all in our local environments and in our larger political and cultural structures.

We believe our students should take the following steps along the pathway to becoming full local and global citizens:

  • Understanding an issue (problem), its context and extent; having and being able to locate up-to-date information from reliable and credible sources.
  • Taking a position on the issue and finding a voice
  • Creating a personal course of action
  • Reflecting on the consequences of the action and evaluating it: how has the experience changed the individual (the student) and the local and global communities?
  • Connecting thought and action should be intentional.
The mission of Women’s Studies is intended to enhance and promote the mission of Bloomfield College. Participating students and faculty will research a current issue of global importance and learn how to act both locally and globally in pursuing solutions to the problems that arise in connection to the issue, in order to both alleviate those problems for the local and global societies, but also to strengthen their own personal capabilities and senses of responsibility and multicultural empathy.

Yearly themes are determined by consensus of the program committee; eventual student involvement in choosing the theme is a goal. We will use Human Trafficking as the theme for the 2006-2007 academic year and the mechanism to follow the objectives we've put forth.

It is also the mission of Women’s Studies to promote self-care by women students and faculty on campus. They will value and practice self-care as an aspect of empowerment.