Women's Center Mission
The Boise State Women's Center was founded in 1992 by a dedicated group of students, faculty and staff. Dr. Larry Selland, interim president at the time and tireless advocate for diversity, helped secure initial funding for the center's creation. On July 1, 1993, Dr. Selland signed the Women's Center into being as an official administrative unit at Boise State University.
The Boise State Women's Center empowers students to achieve their goals and promotes social change by providing educational outreach, support services, and a safe place.
Educational Outreach
The Women's Center works to raise awareness about policies, services, and programs throughout the University that affect women. The center focuses on topics of access and equal opportunity in educational programs and environments for women as well as in the area of their own personal development. The Women's Center provides a variety of educational programming about women's concerns, contributions, and potential, paying attention to the needs of all women and being inclusive of sexual orientation, non-traditional students, single parents, and women of color.
Support Service - consultation, referral, resources
The center acts as a point of entry where women's concerns can be handled directly or supportively referred to the appropriate university office or community agency.
The center provides resources and information on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, relationship violence, safety, women's health issues, and self-esteem. We work to promote academic success and provide supportive referrals and consultation on a variety of issues that face women.
Services include, but are not limited to, the following: resource and referral, advocacy, event planning and coordination, support/discussion groups, a center newsletter, community outreach, and a re-entry women's mentoring program.
Safe Place
The center is a safe and supportive place to meet, study, or relax. Pay us a visit and check out our newest remodeling project.
