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Center for Scholarship, Research, and Professional Development for Women 

The NASPA Center for Scholarship, Research and Professional Development for Women examines issues of concern to women in education, matters of policy development, and the design and implementation of relevant programs, services, advocacy and mentoring opportunities for women professionals and students.  While encouraging research from all in student affairs, the Center encourages, in particular, research by women, for women, and about women in student affairs and about women students.

The Center for Women targets the following areas:

• The status of women in higher education.
• How to educate women in higher education.
• How to provide for the unique needs of women in higher education.
• What women bring to higher student affairs/higher education.
• Research about women enrolled in higher education.
• Research about women working in student Affairs/higher education.
• Leadership development for women working in student affairs/higher education.

In addition, the Center:

• Serves as an information, networking, and funding resource to support women in producing scholarship in support of student affairs work broadly defined to embrace the mission of higher education
• Offers a professional home in NASPA for women, including leaders in women's centers
• Partners with other organizations who are looking at various issues that affect the education and advancement of women
• Works with graduate faculty who are witnessing the feminization of the field of student affairs
• Publishes an annual journal for scholarship and research on women
• Provides mentoring possibilities for women from the pre-professional to postretirement through the Panel of Listeners program
• Collaborates with other organizations that focus on professional development for women to provide more alternatives for women in Student Affairs