Education
The Women’s Center uses education (i.e. programs focused on raising awareness on issues related to gender) as a way to enact social change and to address a climate that supports sexism and other forms of oppression.
The Women’s Center works to dismantle gender oppression through prevention and education.
Advocacy
Individual advocacy
Assisting staff, faculty, and students with
- Specific incidents of sexual assault
- Dating/domestic violence
- Sexual harassment
- Stalking
- Gender discrimination
Institutional advocacy
- Changing the culture/climate
Support
Support Services
Assisting staff, faculty, and students with
- Crisis intervention related to sexual harassment
- Sexual assault
- Relationship violence
- Discrimination
In this women’s history month, we are celebrating Black Herstory Month by highlighting strong women who have changed the world 💜
Now postponed to March 4th!! This Wednesday 6-7:15pm
Join the UConn Women’s Center for our SAAM 5K Walk, Run, or Jog as we move together in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and stand with survivors. Whether you’re running, jogging, or walking with friends, we’d love to see you there!
📍 Fairfield Way (North Side – Student Union)
🗓️ Sunday, March 29th @ 12 PM
Want to get involved? We’re also looking for volunteers! Help as a Pace Setter or join our Set-Up & Take-Down Crew.
Register or sign up to volunteer by scanning the QR code!!
Come with us to the Women’s Basketball Game to celebrate women in sports 💜
Thank you so much @uconnwbb for letting us be there💙🤍
Join the UConn Women’s Center on March 11th for a special International Women’s Day celebration. We’ll have flower arranging, sweet treats, and a space to honor the incredible women in our lives and community. 💐🍰
Meet the facilitators of our Greeks against sexual assault (GASA) group and learn more about what they do. If you are interested in joining, GASA meets every Monday from 5-6pm💜
Come join us for a fun trivia kahoot night and learn about the women’s center and our programs! We’ll have pizza and snacks provided!
Celebrating the love of Valentine’s Day in this episode of Women’s Center on the Go! 💞
Thank you to everyone who showed up to our Women in STEM day celebration! It was lovely to spend the evening together celebrating all of you and your achievements 💜
The Men’s Project is an eight-week training that begins March 4th. The goal of the Men’s Project is to train students who identify as men to positively influence their peers by challenging social norms, building community, understanding their connection to survivors of gender-based violence and role modeling effective bystander interventions. These weekly meetings will focus on topics related to gender socialization, masculinities, social justice and gender-based violence. If you are interested in learning more, please apply using the link below:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=fqjxFyUqqk65351DkDSwgIrr0-H30QNCrncaeyOlW-JUREdQTUk0TUlCWFk0Skg2U0Y2RVJXSEtQNiQlQCN0PWcu
Check out our Programming Committee tomorrow for their first meeting! Come share your ideas!
Hello everyone! Come join us for the first meeting of our book club tomorrow. Book is included! See you there 📚
