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Research Clearinghouse and Curriculum Integration Project on Women of Color and Southern Women DOCUMENT RESUME El) 306 891 HE 022 615 AUTHOR Cannon, Lynn Weber TITLE Research Clearinghouse and Curriculum Integration Project on Women of Color and Southern Women. INSTITUTION American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.; Memphis State Univ., Tenn. SPONS AGENCY Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (ED), Washington, DC.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Dec 88 NOTE 194p.; This report is one of a group gathered by the AASCU/ERIC Model Programs Inventory Project, funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, in collaboration with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. For related documents, see HE 022 565-617, HE 022 619-643 and HE 022 645-659. PUB TYPE Reports - Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Bibliographic Databases; *Black Students; Clearinghouses; *College Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Faculty Development; *Females; Feminism; Higher Education; *Information Dissemination; Models; Program Descriptions; State Universities; Womens Education IDENTIFIERS *AASCU ERIC Model Programs Inventory Project; *Memphis State University TN; United States (South) ABSTRACT A clearinghouse and curriculum project at Memphis State dniversity is described in this report. Aimed to facilitate the integration of women of color and Southern women into the college curriculum, this program was designed to increase access to the new scholarship on these groups; to work with faculty to develop a new vision of the curriculum; and to devise techniques to shape classroom dynamics to facilitate learning. The program involved the following activities:(1) development of a research clearinghouse, including an online database of bibliugraphic citations on the latest social science research on women of color and Southern women and a newsletter;(2) workshops for faculty and students on curriculum change (reaching about 150 faculty locally and nationally); and (3) seminars (monthly, for faculty, to discuss issues of content and pedagogy). Results of the program are discussed in terms of publications, curricula developed, presentations and workshops. Appended are research clearinghouse documentation; a bibliography ("Women of Color and Southern riomen: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, 1975-19881); selected bibliographies and curriculum publi ltions; sample newsletters; and electronic bulletin board documentation. (KM) 1-4 Project Title: CO Research Clearinghouse and Curriculum Integration Project on Women of Color and Southern Women Ott O Institution: LLI Memphis State University Center for Research on Warren hamphis, TN 38152 Project Director: Lynn Weber Cannon, Ph.D. Telephone (901) 678-2-70 Grant: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) Grant Number 6008440418 Diana Hayman - Program Officer Project rates: Starting Date:August 21, 1984 Ending Date: August 20, 1988 Grant Award: Year 1:$ 78,652 Year 2:$ 82,000 Year 3:$ 83,000 Year 4:$ 8,000 Total: $251,652 REPRODUCE THIS U S DEPPRTMENT OF EDUCATION "PERMISSION TO BY O Office of Educational Research and Improvement MATERIAL HASBEEN GRANTED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CEN 7R (ERIC) Lynn WeberCannon 9' his document habeen r droduced as recnivecl from the person or organization Univ onginatino it Jegmhis State Minor changes have been made imorove reproduction quality RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this docu TO THEEDUCATIONAL mint do not necealarily r opresent official CENTER lEcIlD)." OE RI position or policy INFORMATION 2 AVAILARF BESTCOPY I AASCU/ERIC Model Programs Inventory Project The AASCU/ERIC Model Programs Inventory is a two-year project seeking to establish and test a model system for collecting and disseminating information on model programs at AASCU-member institutions--375 of the public four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The four objectives of the project are: o To increase the information on model programs available to all institutions through the ERIC system o To encourage the use of the ERIC system by AASCU institutions o To improve AASCU's ability to know about, and share information on, activities at member institutions, and o To test a model for collaboration with ERIC that other national organizations might adopt. The AASCU/ERIC Model Programs Inventory Project is funded with a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, in collaboration with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Educationat The George Washington University. J Page 2 ABgERACT This project was designed to facilitate the integration ofwomen of color and Southernwomen into the college curriculum at Memphis State University, at other Mid -South institutions, and across the nation. TO do so, the project aimed: to increase access to the new scholarshipon these groups; to work with faculty to develop a new vision of the curriculum; and to devise techniques to shape classroan dynamics to facilitate learning by and aboutwomen of color and southern women. The project produced resource materials and worked with local faculty and faculty from around the nation in a variety ofways to change their teaching. We worked with faculty to revise courses in several formats: monthly seminars on women in the curriculum (approximately 5Garea faculty), three national workshops on women in the curriculum (about '.50 faculty), and in individual consultations.Many syllabi have been developed and revised and participating faculty have changed their teaching inmany ways. Significant impacts were also seen in the philosophy, guidelines andnew course developme& for the new general education program at Memphis State and in emerging general education and women's studies programs at IeMoyne-Owen College and Rhodes College respectively. Other programs have employed our model for workshops to integrate women of color and have developed on-line data bases using the Research Clearinghouse as a model. Project Products: 1. "Research Clearinghouse on Women of Color and Southern Women ". On- line data base of 5,000 bibliographic citations and a human resource file. Selected Bibliographies and topical articles included in each issue of Center's Newsletter, 3 per year, circulation: 10,000. 2. Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research 1975 to 1988.Andrea Timberlake, Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Rebecca F. Guy (eds.), 272 pp. 3. "Selected Bibliography of Social Science Readings on Wanen of Color in in the United States". 38 pp. 4. "Selected Bibliography on Southern Warren ". 49 pp. 5. "To See Ourselves, Tb See Our Sisters: The Challenge of Re-envisioning Curriculum Change". Sandra Morgen. 30 pp. 6. "Conceptual Errors Across the Curriculum: Towards a Transformation of the Tradition ". Elizabeth Minnick. 31 pp. 7. "Transforming the Sociology of the Family: New Directions for Teaching and Texts". Maxine Baca Zinn. 18 pp. 8. "Denying Difference: The Continuing Basis for the Exclusion of Race and Gender in the Curriculum ". Margaret Andersen. 37 pp. 9. "Integrating All Women into the Curriculum". Elizabeth Higginbotham. 45 pp. Page 3 10. "Mothers and Daughters: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course". Lorraine Mayfield. 25 pp. 11. Electronic Bulletin Board. On-line carrnunication network. 5 Page 4 nffRouocrun A. BNCNIRCUMIAND ORIGINS Memphis State University is an urban commuter institution with21,000 students most of whom are first generation college students. The median age is 27 years old, the majority are female and 20%are Black. In the last 25 years, the student bo4ylosixxxme more diverse, but has only minimally accommodated to the community in policies and proceduresas well as the curriculum. On the six campuses of the city of Memphis therewas only one women's studies program (at. Memphis State University) and onlyone other college with a course on women that was offered on a regular basis. In this context, the Center for Research on Warren was established in 1982 witha grant fran the Ford Foundation.The Center's mission is to promote, conduct, and disseminate social science and historical scholarshipon women of color and Southern women. B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION. Our broad goal was to impact mid-south institutions in addition to teachers, scholars, students, policy-makers and others nationwide.As we envisioned it, integrating women of color and southernwomen into college courses involves three activities: (1)obtaining access to information, that is, the new research and writingon these groups of women; (2) developing a theoretical perspective or vision of the subject matter Whichtakes warren of color and southern women out of the margins and places them at thecenter of the analysis; and (3) developing a new pedagogy which is generated out of the experiences of women of color and saathemaiwatennot out of dominant culture experiencethat is, developing teaching techniques and shapingclassroom dynamics to facilitate learning by and aboutwomen of color and southernmayen. Ourcurriculam integration work had two specific aims: (1) to increase access to the latest scholarship by developing a variety of resources; and (2) to facilitate the inclusion of the new scholarship into the curriculum by working with faculty to disseminate the scholarship andto develop the vision and pedagogy necessary to incorporate thisnew knowledge into their teaching. Wecreated a Research Clearinghouse onwomen of
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