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Successful women, wake
up!
Your Younger sisters want to grasp your outstretched hands,
and encouraged by the love of your hearts
start their journeys to success.
-Rose Butler
Browne, 1969
Course:
HDF297
Meeting Time:
Tues
& Wed, 2-3:30pm
Location:
Bliss Hall
Contact information:
Gail Faris
gailfaris@uri.edu
Project Abstract
Rose Butler Browne was the first African American woman to
graduate from the University of Rhode Island in 1921, and this program,
sponsored by the Women's Center and the Center for Student Leadership
Development, is named for her and invokes her spirit in its
implementation.
The Rose Butler
Browne Leadership and Mentor Program for Women of Color at URI is a four
step program that creates a safe harbor for these women while at the
same time helping them participate fully in University life and
preparing them for career success. It is designed to assist in the
adjustment, academic and social success, leadership development, campus
participation, and career preparation of a group of students who have a
higher than average dropout rate, as well as feelings of isolation and
lower social satisfaction, and who experience subtle and overt
discrimination at our predominantly white university.
The program
components consist of for credit, graded and non-graded classes using
creative learning techniques and facilitated in a nurturing, supportive,
and validating environment. Women will have the opportunity to
participate differently each year and continued participation will be
recognized with increasing responsibility. Women will be 1.) mentored
during their first year, 2.) engaged in active and applied leadership
development as sophomores, juniors, and seniors, 3.) serve as mentors
during their sophomore, junior and senior years 4.) plan and facilitate
leadership development programs and juniors and seniors. Faculty and
staff of color will also participate as mentors. Successful women of
color alumnae and community members will participate in all aspects of
the program, including advisory board membership, curriculum
development, training and teambuilding retreats, class sessions,
community service projects, and recognition and celebratory events.
Whereas
today's opportunities are based on the work of pervious generations,
and the doors that our ancestors opened,
And
Whereas
Rose Butler Browne, a woman from a pervious generation, opened doors for
women of color at URI by being the first African American woman to
graduate from URI in 1921,
And
Whereas
Rose Butler Browne continued to open doors for people of color by
working her whole life as a teacher, a professor, and a mentor,
Be it
Resolved that the Leadership and Mentor Program for Women of
Color at URI be dedicated to her spirit, and thereby renamed the "Rose
Butler Browne Leadership and Mentor Program for Women of Color at URI."
So Dedicated
this 27th day of February, 2002.
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