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Learning happens outside the classroom with many special programs and events supporting women's leadership and gender equity.

Chatham University offers a wide variety of activities outside the classroom for graduate and undergraduate students interested in women's leadership and gender equity, including places to live, 奖学金, 俱乐部, 特别活动, 讲座, 电影, 撤退, 还有更多!

领导 Skills Development

In collaboration with the Women's Institute and 多样性 Dialogues, the Office of 职业发展 offers a "多样性 in Career" series, with programs on:

  • Dress for success for gender non-conforming students
  • Salary negotiation strategies
  • LGBTQIA+ in the workplace
  • Discrimination in the workplace

职业发展 also offers a free "professional dress closet" that ensures that all women have access to clothing for interviews and networking events, 办公室着装.

Develop your leadership skills through dozens of student organizations, including these focused on women and gender:

  • Enhance your leadership skills through participation in athletics. 了解更多»
  • Be a leader on campus through the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. 了解更多»
  • Participate in national conferences, workshops, and honor programs for female student athletes.
  • The Chatham Honors program is an interdisciplinary challenge that engages students in and out of the classroom.
  • R.I.S.E. is a program that provides new students of color with a mentor, institutional support and a series of co-curricular programming throughout a two-year transition period into college.
  • The Social Activism Institute is a one-credit course that allows students to become change agents in their local communities and beyond through a series of classroom 讨论 and educational seminars.
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女性领导 Living Learning 社区

The Women's Institute provides special programming for the LLC, housed in historic Laughlin Hall (旅行!), and students plan activities and events that promote women's leadership and gender equity on campus and in the community.

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Public 领导 Education Network (Plen) Seminars

Chatham University is a founding member of PLEN, 这使得华盛顿, DC-based seminars and internships focused on women and public policy, 比如女性, 法律, and legal advocacy; women and congress; women in public policy; women in health policy; and women in global policy.

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Women of the World Retreats

The Women of the World (W.O.W.) Retreat is an annual leadership retreat open to all graduate and undergraduate women. 每年, the weekend-long retreat engages participants in a series of facilitations, 讨论, and activities focused on a different theme related to leadership.

了解W.O.W. : Checkerboard 5 - Women of the World Retreats
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T.G.I.F. (Talking About Gender Issues Friday)

Weekly coffee and cookie hour open to all students, 教师, and staff; hosted by the Women's Institute to discuss gender issues in politics, 时事, 流行文化, 以及校园事件.