Stitzel Endowment Teachers

Judith Gold Stitzel Endowment for Excellence in Women's Studies Teaching and Learning - Founded in 1998 and the first WVU fund created by a faculty member to continue her/his work after retirement, this endowment fosters the creation of new, and enrichment of existing, courses. It will lead, as well, to the creation of a professorship in women's studies. The endowment was established to ensure a continuing and vital presence for Women's Studies as an academic discipline at WVU. Therefore, the endowment supports Women's Studies teaching and learning which is sensitive to gender and which places women's concerns, ideas, perspectives, and interests as much at the center of the scholarly and teaching enterprise as men's have been.

The intent of the endowment is educative and transformative. The goals are 1) to make permanently available to the University community, and through that community to West Virginia citizens, the new and expanding knowledge which Women's Studies scholarship creates and 2) to institutionalize Women's Studies knowledge into the fabric of teaching at WVU. Therefore, endowment resources will be used to recognize, support, and strengthen faculty members in their work as educators, particularly those on the Morgantown campus of WVU, but also applicants and those invited or recruited to WVU from other institutions. In all cases, teaching and learning activities supported by this endowment must be designed to increase Women's Studies knowledge at WVU.Eligible Activities:
Examples include, but are not limited to, designing new courses and reconceptualizing existing courses and course modules; instruction may be in traditional classroom settings or via electronic media. Project proposals which do not directly affect student learning, e.g., faculty curriculum workshops, are eligible when they support the goals of the endowment. One proposal will be funded for a maximum amount of $4,000.Click here for more information and application form.