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Posts and News with Women's History Month Tag

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Portrait of President Joyce McConnell

Women’s History Month: President Joyce McConnell

March 29, 2019 Author -

Today 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 […]

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Kate and Bill Doe hiking at Devil’s Backbone, May 3, 2014

Women’s History Month: Kate Kiefer

March 28, 2019 Author -

Kate 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 […]

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WHM: 10 Women Writers Who Changed History

March 27, 2019 Author -

~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 […]

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Three department chairs: Pattie Cowell, Bruce Ronda, and Louann Reid

Women’s History Month: Pattie Cowell

March 26, 2019 Author - Brennen Kaylor

Pattie 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 […]

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A group of young men and women stand, kneel, sit, or lounge in front Old Main in 1886.

Women’s History Month: Elizabeth G. Bell

March 25, 2019 Author -

Elizabeth 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 […]

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Portrait of Susan Glaspell

Linda Ben-Zvi Celebrates Susan Glaspell at Bas Bleu Theater, March 9 and 10

March 7, 2019 Author -

Linda 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 […]

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Women’s History Month: March 2019

March 6, 2019 Author -

Celebrated 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.” […]

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Women’s History Month: Our Community of Women

March 29, 2018 Author -

Today 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 […]

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Women’s History Month: Lorrie Moore

March 28, 2018 Author -

~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. […]

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Women’s History Month: Girl Power

March 28, 2018 Author -

Watching 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 […]

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