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Major Gift from
IWL Founder
Expands
Leadership Learning
Mary S. Hartman, the recently retired founding director of the Institute for Women's Leadership, and University Professor Emerita, continues to invest in the future of the IWL. She and her husband Dr. Edwin M. Hartman have made a generous gift of $51,000 to the Mary S. Hartman Women's Leadership Opportunity Fund. The Hartman gift adds to the support of family, friends and Rutgers colleagues who launched the Fund to honor Mary's stellar career at Rutgers as a professor of history and women's and gender studies, former Douglass Dean, and founder of the Institute for Women's Leadership.
"It has been an honor to be part of the IWL programs and witness students' growth as they studied theory and history in the classroom, then applied that learning in the community and in leadership projects. I believe our Leadership Scholars Program is an exciting educational model and am so pleased to make this contribution to fund future student learning opportunities." |
All best wishes to you for a festive holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year. |
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New Funding Supports New Program: Young Women's Foster Care Mentoring Program
Adolescent girls in foster care can look forward to supportive mentoring relationships with Rutgers students, thanks to generous funding from the Cape Branch Foundation. The Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) and the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) received a gift of $150,000 from Cape Branch to support the Young Women's Foster Care Mentoring Project, a three-year initiative to link undergraduate students at IWL with the Center for Applied Psychology at GSAPP. The purpose of the project is to strengthen and expand the Adolescent Girls in Resource Care Psychotherapy Group by adding a mentoring component to the program.
Click here to learn more. |
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WINGS Students Benefit from Dress for Success, Mercer County
 | | Dress to Impress, Dress for Success: WINGS Students received head-to-toe makeovers at the Dress for Success, Mercer County Boutique. |
Dressing professionally for interviews and events is one of the concerns of students in the Rutgers WINGS College-to-Career Mentoring Program. To meet this need, for the last two years "What Not to Wear to WINGS Events" has been a welcome feature of our WINGS Orientation. This year, advice became opportunity, thanks to the efforts of Connie A. Ellis, WINGS Program Director and Frances E. Cohen, Boutique Manager, Dress for Success, Mercer County, as well as a corps of enthusiastic Dress for Success volunteers. Learn more about WINGS and Dress for Success. |
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IWL Alumna in Profile
 | | Courtney S. Turner writes from Tanzania |
IWL Leadership Scholar and Douglass College graduate, 2002, Courtney Turner is working for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Currently, she is a Center for Disease Control and Prevention, International Experience and Technical Assistance Fellow, selected to serve in Tanzania. She has spent five months working on developing Funding Opportunity Announcements and Standard Operating Procedures documents, both critical steps in the Tanzanian President's planning for relief and funding for HIV/AIDS.
Reflecting on her IWL experience, Courtney writes:
"Honestly, I don't know what part of IWL hasn't impacted my federal career. Specifically, the field experience and training in social action are what have contributed to my development as a federal employee the most. The field experience grounded my understanding of public health, funding resources, pooling and working together as a team." Read more. |
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Write. Share. Grow.
This eight-week program was designed for first year female Rutgers students to promote emotional and physical growth and to use writing as a vehicle for stress relief and healing. "Write. Share. Grow." was developed and implemented by Candace Irabli, an IWL Leadership Scholar with a triple major in Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Public Health. Based on the understanding that college students have a lot on their plates --stress relating to academics, personal relationships, finances, and planning for the future--Candace set out to create a space for students to share fiction, musical lyrics, poetry and journal entries. According to Candace, "The work produced over the eight weeks far exceeded any expectation I'd had as a group facilitator. . . Through this process I have done a lot of growing myself. I have learned that my passion for providing a space for people to be themselves, to be real, to feel comfortable - this is my calling."
To learn more about this project and other social action work by IWL Leadership Scholars, come to "Young Leaders and Social Change Forum" Tuesday, February 8, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Mabel Smith Douglass Library.
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