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Recruiting a Faculty Team
To strengthen the national feminist network and bolster recruitment
and outreach to feminist activists on college campuses, the Feminist
Majority Foundation (FMF) and Leadership Alliance participants work
closely with faculty members and staff nationwide. Faculty members
and staff represent one of our most valuable organizing resources
and have shown strong support for the program through participation
in the Leadership Alliance Faculty and Staff Team.
Responsibilities
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Faculty
Responsibilities of the Faculty
Team
- Serve as a mentor for the student activists;share past activist
experience and knowledge
- Identify students for participation in the program and encourage
a diverse student membership
- Work to establish course credit for active participation in
the Leadership Alliance and Choices Campaign
- Attend weekly meetings and major events as often as possible
- Advise students leaders on events, actions, and meetings
- Help students work in coalition with various campus groups and
departments
- Help strengthen the long term effectiveness of the Leadership
Alliance on campus
- Help increase visibility for the feminist agenda on campus
- Sign off on constitution, budget proposals, and other necessary
documents
- Help students become familiar with the University system
Benefits to being part of the Faculty
Team
- Participation in a nationwide network of feminist faculty members
and students
- Access to FMF's cutting edge research on a variety of issues
including RU486, clinic violence, the Right Wing, local and national
feminist politics, and global women's issues
- Help getting speakers to campus
- National support from the FMF and Leadership Alliances for
Women's Studies, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies
programs and centers
- Our quarterly newsletter the "Feminist Majority Report"
- Access to our web site, www.feminist.org, and membership in
our new interactive Choices Campus Community at www.feministcampus.org,
including a special online faculty lounge
Recruiting a Faculty Team
- Work with Women’s Studies departments, minors, and programs.
- Approach the feminist faculty and staff your know with the opportunity
to participate. These should be faculty and staff from a variety
of disciplines.
- Work with these faculty members to help identify additional
feminist faculty and staff in Women's Studies and other departments
that may want to get involved.
- Make appointments with potential faculty and staff supporters
as soon as possible to discuss the Leadership Alliance and Choices
Campaign and to familiarize them with the program, its vision,
and the Faculty and Staff Team role.
- Offer potential faculty and staff supporters the opportunity
to speak with a Field Representative.
FM Leadership Alliance Core Documents:
Overview of Campus Program
Start a Leadership Alliance on Campus
Chartering Your Campus Group
Leadership Alliance Constitution
Recruiting a Faculty Team
Holding the First Meeting
The Executive Committee
Field Representative Team
Feminist Majority Documents
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