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Women's Studies







projects—women's studies has remained on the back burner, waiting to be warmed and served. There have been efforts on the part of black women faculty over the years to bring women's studies to black campuses, but this work has not been noted in the large body of scholarship on transforming the liberal arts curriculum.

Some exceptions to these generalizations include Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University), whose Africana Women's Center initiated a graduate degree program in Africana women's studies in 1987. The project also involved faculty development in Africana women's studies at four other predominantly black colleges—Hampton University, Atlanta Junior College, Southern University, and Jackson State University—under the auspices of their Women's Institute of the Southeast Developmental Project in Africana Women's Studies funded by FIPSE from 1982 through 1985. Attempts should be made to ascertain the impact of the project on the participating institutions, which have been ignored in assessments of curriculum integration of women's studies in the academy. The Africana Women's Center held the "National Conference on Africana Women's Studies in the United States," in Atlanta in December 1985. Presently, Clark Atlanta University offers the only doctoral program in Africana women's studies; this program is an outgrowth of the early work of the center.