Center still committed to students
Lara Shapiro Snair
Issue date: 5/9/05 Section: News
By Lara Shapiro-Snair
Managing Editor
The Women's and Re-entry Center will remain open, with limited supervision, until June 30, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the VC Foundation. After the end of June, however, there is no clear future for the center and the services it offers.
Dr. Karen Brown and Lauri Moore, joint coordinators of the center, have been looking for grant money to keep the center running since the District Board voted to cut their positions in March.
"We started this 13 years ago with grant money, with me as a volunteer. The district has only paid my salary for about three years," Brown said.
Brown and Moore are committed to keeping the center open to serve students and are continuing to look for grant money and other ways to raise funds.
The center provides many services to students, the most well known being the book lending library. What isn't as recognized is the role that the center and it's coordinators play in bringing speakers to the campus.
These speakers will not be available to the student body if the center is gone.
Brown expressed mixed feelings about whether it could be run by volunteers again.
"If someone had the right skills, time and dedication, yes, it could be done," Brown said. "What bothers me is that we have to go back to that. That's pushing women back again."
Managing Editor
The Women's and Re-entry Center will remain open, with limited supervision, until June 30, thanks to a $20,000 grant from the VC Foundation. After the end of June, however, there is no clear future for the center and the services it offers.
Dr. Karen Brown and Lauri Moore, joint coordinators of the center, have been looking for grant money to keep the center running since the District Board voted to cut their positions in March.
"We started this 13 years ago with grant money, with me as a volunteer. The district has only paid my salary for about three years," Brown said.
Brown and Moore are committed to keeping the center open to serve students and are continuing to look for grant money and other ways to raise funds.
The center provides many services to students, the most well known being the book lending library. What isn't as recognized is the role that the center and it's coordinators play in bringing speakers to the campus.
These speakers will not be available to the student body if the center is gone.
Brown expressed mixed feelings about whether it could be run by volunteers again.
"If someone had the right skills, time and dedication, yes, it could be done," Brown said. "What bothers me is that we have to go back to that. That's pushing women back again."