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Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Women's Center

The Women’s Center for Education and Service supports the mission of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi by promoting a supportive, equitable and safe environment that advances and affirms the inherent dignity and worth of women through education, advocacy and service endeavors.

The Center works to empower students to create a campus culture that values women, their many identities and various experiences; to provide information, referrals, speakers, performers, events and activities about issues that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual harassment, relationship violence, rape and eating disorders; and to create opportunities for women’s perspectives to be voiced on campus and in the Coastal Bend community. The Center actively educates the campus community on sexual violence and connects survivors of sexual violence with necessary resources, educates students on the ways in which gender is understood and how it shapes social structures and individual experiences, and assesses the climate for women on campus and advocates for the diverse needs of women.

The Women's Center for Education & Service has been helping the women of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi achieve since 1995. A group of faculty initiated the idea for a TAMUCC women's center in the spring of 1993. They were later joined by staff and students and developed a formal proposal for the center. The president and cabinet approved this proposal in the spring of 1994. The official Women's Center for Education and Service was approved by the A&M System Board of Regents on January 27, 1995. Programming started immediately, with a celebration of Women's History Month and the 75th anniversary of Women's Suffrage.

The Women’s Center (WC) has developed a calendar of traditional events and programs throughout the academic year. Each fall the Women’s Center highlights the contributions of Hispanic Women in our community as part of Hispanic Heritage Month in September. The Women’s Center works to “Paint the Island Pink” with a full week of events honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October including a forum and expo, the “Paws for a Cause” dog walk to raise funds for First Friday, the “Think Pink” photo event, and more.

Also in October we participate in the YWCA’s National Week Without Violence. In November we host the annual Celebration of Women in the Arts event and a forum on communication and relationships. The WC begins each spring by focusing on Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January. February is the busiest time of year — with our annual V-Day College Campaign Production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.”

The funds raised by this program support continued WC programs and resources. March marks Women’s History Month. The annual “Telling Our Grandmothers’ Stories” event is held each March to honor the history of the women in our lives who won’t make the history books. The WC also has a unique partnership with the Gender Communication course on campus to host a week’s worth of programs planned, promoted and led by students in the course. The WC wraps up spring programming by focusing on Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.

The Women's Center works hard to facilitate connections between individuals, groups, departments and the community with common goals and desires to improve the environment for women and others. The WC has a great library of books and magazines and maintains a list, updated twice a year, of area child care providers. It works closely with the local community, including agencies such as First Friday, the City of Corpus Christi, Planned Parenthood, The Women’s Shelter of South Texas, YWCA Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend Coordinated Community Response Coalition.

The Women's Center works to increase opportunities for all women on campus and in the Coastal Bend by providing leadership opportunities, such as the Islander Women in Leadership mentoring group and five internships focused on different majors and fields.

Interested in volunteering? The Women's Center invites the women and men of the University, along with alumni and the community, to contribute to its efforts. Contributions may take the form of program planning and implementation, resource and monetary donations, publicity, co-sponsorship of presentations, and fundraising.

Volunteers may actively participate in the work of the Center by working with the office staff to plan and implement programs, help staff information tables, and by attending Women's Center programs and encouraging others to attend. Come by the Women's Center office, UC 303, and fill out a form. Have an idea about how to help women on campus that you'd like to make happen? Your input is always appreciated. For more information on WC’s programs, visit womenscenter.tamucc.edu.


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