Growing Joys

Williams
Photo by Jerry Meyerle

Dear friends,

SWAG is growing! The signs are everywhere. You might notice that this newsletter is longer than any previous edition — we have so much to show you and share with you, we couldn’t fit it all in without expanding our borders.

In these pages you’ll find pictures of our Fall Student-Faculty Social, several contributions from students, and descriptions of our Essay Contest winners. You will also find out what our faculty have been up to, and help us mark the return of Iris: A Magazine for Thinking Young Women in its latest incarnation. We have revamped our webpage as well — and already won an award for it! You’ll find a description of some of the changes and features inside.

We’re also growing in the number of ways we can connect and stay in touch with you. Very shortly, starting with this edition, we will produce an online version of the newsletter. It’s not déjà vu! When you get the message, please click on the link and take a look — we will want to know what you think. The online version will also allow us to begin distributing the newsletter to colleagues in Women’s Studies programs across Virginia and beyond — growing our network even further.

All this growth might, under other circumstances, cause some growing pains. But with the endless support we receive from you — our students, alumnae, faculty, and friends of the Program — all this growth brings nothing but joy.

So I will close this note with a request for your continued support. Whenever your circumstances permit, please consider making a contribution of any size to support the very important work we do. It’s as easy as visiting our webpage: http://www.virginia.edu/womenstudies/support.html. There you’ll see all the ways your gift will help us fulfill our teaching and research missions—to keep watching our students succeed and our faculty excel. And help us keep growing!

With warmest regards,
Rina