Education

The Women's Empowerment Program is supervised by the Office of the Dean of Students and housed under the Division of Student Affairs.  The program is advised by an Assistant Director for Residence Life.

The program seeks to offer education, programming, and open dialogue on the following important topics of consideration:

Advocacy and Social Justice – The program promotes the physical and psychological well being of women students through education, support services and referral. It provides an ongoing assessment of the campus climate for women students with regard to policies and practices relevant to their time as students and alumni.

Service and Leadership – The Center promotes the active and full participation of women students in the educational community through service, education, mentoring, networking and advocacy. It inculcates leadership skills that will help make women students’ distinctive graduates of the Mount.

Scholarship and Discovery – The program initiates and coordinates educational opportunities and programming addressing gender-related topics and provides information to the campus community on women’s issues.

Spirituality and Community – The program contributes to the University’s mission to be a strong and diverse community that strives to graduate men and women who cultivate a mature spiritual life, who live by high intellectual and moral standards, who respect the dignity of other persons, who see and seek to resolve the problems facing humanity, and who commit themselves to live as responsible citizens.