Our Mission
The Women and Leadership Alliance is a joint endeavor to support and promote student programs at the Claremont Colleges that will highlight issues faced by women in leadership in business, government and the professions. Entities currently involved include the Kravis Leadership Institute, the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, the Center for Writing and Public Discourse, the Dean of Students Office, the Dean of Faculty Office, the Office of Development, the Women's Forum, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges, and the CGU School of Educational Studies. Highlight OnAudrey Bilgerby Shree Pandya and Wendalyn Tran
In 1994, Professor Audrey Bilger came to Claremont McKenna College as an Assistant Professor of Literature, after two years in a visiting position at Oberlin College. Her scholarship focuses on comic theory, feminist theory, and Jane Austen and her contemporaries. To read more about this highlight on Audrey Bilger click here. To read additional highlights, click here. Student Highlight OnSamantha AbrilSamantha, a CMC junior, had recently been selected to be a member of the American Association of University Women's (UUAW) National Security Advisory Council. The Council is comprised of 10 female students who have demonstrated leadership and community engagement, and serve as ambassadors for UUAW, providing firsthand accounts of student needs, giving ideas for combating sex discrimination in higher education and the workplace, and promoting AAUW and its programs on their campuses. Read more about Samantha at: http://iws.scrippscollege.edu/index.htm WLA Sponsored EventsOctober 26, 2011: A Career in Government: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction? A lunch (12pm) panel discussion to be held in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. Panelists include Lisa Minshew Pitney, CMC '88 (Government Relations, Disney Co.), Aleta Wenger (Executive Director for International Programs, CMC), Adam Rush, CMC '03 (Mayor, Eastvale, CA), Christina Cromley Bruner, CMC ’91 (Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative). Sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children. February 10, 2012: Women and Leadership Workshop. Co-sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance. April 27, 2012: Negotiation Workshop. Sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, the Kravis Leadership Institute, the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, and the CMC Office of Development. Other Related EventsFebruary 22, 2012: Meg Wolitzer in the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. Author of The Ten Year Nap and The Uncoupling. Sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, and the Center for Writing and Public Discourse.
March 22-25, 2012: The 4th International Conference on Adoption and Culture, Mapping Adoption: Histories, Geographies, Literatures, Politics. Sponsored by Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges and the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children. |
For its first faculty focus, the Women and Leadership Alliance would like to recognize Professor Audrey Bilger, one of the most acclaimed professors and prominent leaders on campus.
