“The Cow Helped Her Get an Education”: The Community College WGS Scholarship Program as Social Justice Mission

• In Event: Transgressing Privilege: Embodying WGS as a Social Justice Movement at the Community College

Abstract

A scholarship program that requires, of course, academic excellence but also emphasizes leadership and commitment to women’s, gender-related or other socially conscious programs, encourages, brings focus and awards student work for social justice. When that scholarship program involves the dedication and efforts of the whole college, starting with the college president, it becomes a social justice mission of its own. This presentation will discuss the Montgomery College WSG Scholarship Program, its commitment to social justice and the ways in which it has become a means for the college to effect change both locally and internationally, through the students it supports.

Presenter

• Genevieve Carminati, Montgomery College