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A sign reading "Welcome to the Women's Center", with a group of students sitting around a table in the background.

Mar 1, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure With the Women’s Center

In honor of Women's History Month, pick from five curated pathways to connect with NC State's Women's Center — this March and all year long.
Graduating student dressed in red regalia faces NC State Belltower

May 6, 2022

From Orientation to Graduation, Campus Community Centers Uplift Graduates

Each spring, NC State’s campus community centers recognize and uplift the range of unique student identities during their own graduation celebrations.

A flat lay image that includes Women's Center stickers, flyers and a copy of the book Sing, Unburied, Sing.

Mar 1, 2021

Finding Your Wolfpack: The Women’s Center

For students passionate about gender and equity issues, the Women’s Center offers a community to learn, grow and build lasting connections.
A group of student athletes pose with Brenda Tracy.

Sep 19, 2019

Survivor Challenges Campus to #SetTheExpectation

Brenda Tracy will spend five days on campus as part of a student-led effort to combat sexual and interpersonal violence. Her #SetTheExpectation campaign has raised awareness of the issue nationwide.
The Women's Center's peer educators program, The Movement, hosts a student workshop.

Oct 22, 2018

Placing Community at the Center

NC State's campus community centers — the African American Cultural Center, the GLBT Center, Multicultural Student Affairs and the Women’s Center — help students find their authentic selves and gain new perspective.
Two young women sample a treat at the NC State chocolate festival.

Aug 21, 2018

Chocolate Festival Tickets On Sale

It's time to order tickets for the NC State Chocolate Festival, a campus tradition that supports the Women's Center and the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

Mar 2, 2017

Participate in ‘Women’s Herstory Month’ Events in March

Throughout March, the NC State Women's Center will celebrate "Finding Our Freedom" with four signature events and other activities on campus.

Sep 17, 2013

Chocolate Festival Best Thing Ever

Times are tough so why not take a break from research, teaching and extension to do something fun. Something that involves lots of chocolate. We promise it's for a good cause.

Nov 9, 2012

NC State Celebrates 40 Years of Title IX

NC State marks the 40th anniversary of Title IV, the landmark 1972 law outlawing gender discrimination in higher education athletic and academic programs, with a series of events next week.

Jan 19, 2012

Woodsons Announce Student Leadership Program

Nominate a first year student to apply for Chancellor and Mrs. Susan Woodson's new leadership program. Here's how.

Mar 2, 2011

Clothesline Project Honors Assault Survivors

The Women's Center is sponsoring the Clothesline Project on campus this month to support survivors of sexual assault and relationship violence. Painting sessions are scheduled March 17 and 22.

Sep 1, 2010

Women’s Center Director Leaving

Dr. Shannon Johnson is leaving NC State after five years at the helm of the Women's Center. Under her guidance, the center has expanded services, added staff and sought to reduce incidents of interpersonal violence.

Aug 18, 2009

Change Brings Change

There’s an old African proverb that best-selling author Greg Mortenson, NC State’s 2009 convocation speaker, often quotes as the driving force behind his humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan: If you educate a boy, you educate an individual – if you educate a girl, you educate a community. It's a mindset shared by a group of NC State students who have implemented Mortenson's Pennies for Peace program on our campus in hopes of helping bring a shared philosophy of equality in education to children halfway around the world.