Author: Kathy Fischer

Start Smart Salary Negotiation Spring Workshops

The Start Smart workshop is specifically designed to empower women college students about to enter the job market with the skills and confidence to successfully negotiate their salary and benefits packages. By learning strategies and practicing effective language, participants gain valuable skills they can use throughout their lives — well beyond their next negotiation. We […]

Get Involved! Volunteer!

If you are looking to get involved at the Women’s Center or events concerning gender equity, come join our committees.   Programming  works to create and recreate Women’s Center programs which include discussions, film screenings, and interactive activities surrounding topics regarding feminism, body image, media literacy, politics, herstory, and mental health. These include annual programs […]

2018 Women’s Advance Conference – Call For Proposals

       The UConn Women’s Advance Conference is a professional development opportunity for women staff and faculty at all levels of the University that is designed to expand skills, increase knowledge, and enhance networks to promote a more inclusive and supportive working and learning environment at the University.   The UConn Women’s Advance Conference […]

Looking to Get Involved? Join a Committee!

The Women’s Center is currently searching for committee members for our Programming, Marketing, Outreach, and Internal Relations committees! Through their work at the Women’s Center, committee members will have the opportunity to develop a variety of professional skills within a community of students and staff dedicated to promoting gender equity at UConn.   Programming is […]

UConn Women’s Advance Conference

The UConn Women’s Advance Conference is a professional development opportunity for women staff, faculty and graduate students at all levels of the University that is designed to expand skills, increase knowledge, and enhance networks to promote a more inclusive and supportive working and learning environment at the University.   Tuesday, May 9, 2017 UConn Avery […]

Start Smart – Salary Negotiation for Women

The Start Smart workshop is specifically designed to empower women college students about to enter the job market with the skills and confidence to successfully negotiate their salary and benefits packages. By learning strategies and practicing effective language, participants gain valuable skills they can use throughout their lives — well beyond their next negotiation.  This […]

LUNAFEST Film Festival

Thursday, April 6 from 5pm-6:30pm in Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Research Center LUNAFEST is a traveling film festival of award-winning short films by, for and about women. This season’s program of six selected films will compel discussion, make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings and motivate you to make a difference in your community.  […]