Tag: Women’s History Month
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Women’s History Month: President Joyce McConnell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: President Joyce McConnellToday is our last day celebrating Women’s History Month on the blog, and next year is CSU’s 150th anniversary. How are those two things related? Today it was officially announced that our next president will be Joyce McConnell — the 15th president of the university will start her term in our…
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Women’s History Month: Kate Kiefer
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Kate KieferKate Kiefer joined the English department in 1979, coming from Ohio State and specializing in Composition and Rhetoric. She was hired to supervise the teaching of the newly implemented CO101 — to develop curriculum, provide professional development for GTAs who taught the course, coordinate with Steve Reid — then director…
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WHM: 10 Women Writers Who Changed History
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Read More: WHM: 10 Women Writers Who Changed History~from Caitlyn BucknerBackstrom 1. Agatha Christie “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie lived from 1890 to 1976 in a small town on the…
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Women’s History Month: Pattie Cowell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Pattie CowellPattie Cowell is actively enjoying retirement these days, but she is still remembered as an exemplary leader. She spent much of her career in the CSU English Department, joining the department as an adjunct faculty member in 1977. When she finished her PhD in 1978, she joined the department as…
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Women’s History Month: Elizabeth G. Bell
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Elizabeth G. BellElizabeth G. Bell was the first female professor at Colorado State University, hired by President Ingersoll in August of 1885 to teach English, history, and modern languages at the annual salary of $1200. She also lived in Spruce Hall and acted as matron of the all-female dormitory. President Ingersoll felt it…
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Linda Ben-Zvi Celebrates Susan Glaspell at Bas Bleu Theater, March 9 and 10
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Read More: Linda Ben-Zvi Celebrates Susan Glaspell at Bas Bleu Theater, March 9 and 10Linda Ben-Zvi, professor emerita of CSU and Tel Aviv University, has authored four books on early twentieth-century American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress, Susan Glaspell. As part of Women’s History Month, Professor Ben-Zvi will be at Bas Bleu Theater in Fort Collins on March 9 and 10 to discuss Glaspell and…
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Women’s History Month: March 2019
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Read More: Women’s History Month: March 2019Celebrated in March to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 6th, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. The 2019 Women’s History Month theme is “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace & Nonviolence.” The theme honors “women who have led efforts to end…
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Women’s History Month: Our Community of Women
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Our Community of WomenToday we feature our “local” women – alumna, current students, faculty, and/or staff – and all the good things they do. Tomorrow will be a reading list of “local” authors. This list is by no means complete, and even for those included we have not given a full account of…
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Women’s History Month: Lorrie Moore
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Lorrie Moore~from Michaela Hayes Lorrie Moore, born January 13 1957, is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Glens Falls, New York, and later attended St. Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college in Canton, New York. Like Sylvia Plath, she won Seventeen magazine’s annual fiction award…
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Women’s History Month: Girl Power
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Read More: Women’s History Month: Girl PowerWatching some of the speeches from various recent March for Our Lives* events made it clear that kids — in particular girls — have a voice, can be activists and create change. Considering the theme of this year’s Women’s History Month, “Nevertheless, She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of…