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Women's Resource Center records (University of California, Irvine)
AS.015
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: University of California, Irvine, Women's Resource Center records
Creator:
University of California, Irvine. Women's Resource Center
Identifier/Call Number: AS.015
Physical Description:
6.8 Linear Feet
(17 boxes) and 21 unprocessed linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1969-2004
Abstract: This collection documents the activities and interests of the Women's Resource Center, an organization focused on the welfare
of women at the University of California, Irvine. Materials include by-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters,
pamphlets, flyers and brochures, articles, videotapes, photos and news clippings. Represented issues in this collection include
affirmative action, feminism, child care, rape prevention, sexual harassment and cultural understanding.
Language of Material:
English
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Processed components of the collection are open for research. Unprocessed additions may contain restricted materials. Please
contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access.
Property rights and copyright reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the University Archivist.
University of California, Irvine, Women's Resource Center Records. AS-015. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Transferred, 1993-1998.
Initial processing by Lee Johnson in 1997. Processing completed by Mary Ellen Goddard in 2000. Finding aid updated by Carrie
Lee in 2002.
The Women's Center at the University of California, Irvine opened in the 1973/1974 academic year and was staffed by five volunteer
coordinators and other volunteers. Supported by the Associated Students of UCI, the Center's goal was to become the umbrella
organization for all women's programs on campus. Its activities and services included a library, a calendar of activities,
and several committees. The Center also offered a reading group, self-defense classes, consciousness-raising groups, day care,
and information on health services.
The Women's Resource Center (WRC) was established in September 1977 to serve as the umbrella organization for campus women's
programs, including the Women's Center. The WRC also housed a library and reference service and provided a meeting place where
campus women could discuss their issues and concerns. Originally located on the third floor of Gateway Commons, the Center
relocated its offices to the first floor of that building in 1981.
A representative of the WRC served on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women beginning in February 1979.
WRC representatives also served on various chancellor's committees such as the Affirmative Action Committee and the Think
Tank on Diversity, as well as on the board of the UCI chapter of California Women in Higher Education.
In addition to serving as an umbrella organization, the WRC organized a number of its own projects. These included child care,
annual women's leadership retreats, rape prevention education, sexual harassment projects, and tackling concerns like campus
lighting and mature women returning students.
Funding for women's programs on campus was allocated by the Women's Program Board, which was created in October 1975 to provide
a vehicle for the ongoing and cooperative involvement of campus women's groups in the design and implementation of women's
programs for students. Each organization was to send one representative to vote on all matters of funding and policy that
the board considered. Organizations not represented at each meeting would forfeit their vote on the issues presented. A member
of the Assistant Dean of Students' office and from the Women's Center served on this board. Beginning in 1979 the WRC also
had a representative.
California Women in Higher Education (CWHE) was a statewide organization begun in 1972 to advocate, protect and promote the
status of faculty, administrators, staff, and students in higher education. The UCI chapter of this organization was established
in 1974 and was housed at the WRC.
In the fall of 1994 the Women's Resource Center became the Center for Women and Gender Education. In the fall of 2001, the
Center was renamed the Center for Women and Men. Supported by the Office of Student Affairs, the Center offers programs concerning
gender issues for both women and men, while continuing to address the special needs and interests of women.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection documents the activities and interests of the Women's Resource Center, an organization focused on the welfare
of women at the University of California, Irvine. Materials include by-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters,
pamphlets, flyers and brochures, articles, videotapes, photos and news clippings. Represented issues in this collection include
affirmative action, feminism, child care, rape prevention, sexual harassment and cultural understanding.
This collection is arranged in 4 series:
- Series 1. Women's Resource Center, 1969-1994. 4.0 linear feet
- Series 2. Women's Program Board, 1974-1982. 0.2 linear feet
- Series 3. Representatives to Chancellor's committees files, 1970-1990. 1.1 linear feet
- Series 4. California Women in Higher Education, 1975-1982. 1.5 linear feet
The collection also contains two unprocessed additions:
- Accession 2007-004A. Unprocessed addition, 1980-2004. 17 linear feet
- Accession 2007-010A. Unprocessed addition, circa 1980-2001. 4 linear feet
The following publications were removed from this collection and cataloged separately in Special Collections and Archives:
- Seven 3/4 inch videotapes, numbered VTQ205-211, and six Betamax videotapes, numbered VO212-217, have been transferred to AS-020, Media Service Department Videotapes.
- Photographs from this collection have been removed and housed in AS-061, Communications Office Photographs.
- The videos and the photographs are described in this finding aid, with notes about their removal.
Related publications can be found in the following collections:
- Publications by the Women's Resource Center are cataloged in Library Search under the author heading University of California, Irvine. Women's Resource Center.
- Additional publications can be found in the University Archives vertical file folder "Women's Resource Center."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Feminism -- California -- Irvine
Letters -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Child care -- California -- Irvine
Reports -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
Rape -- Prevention -- Archives.
Sexual harassment -- California -- Irvine -- History -- Sources
Affirmative action programs -- California -- Irvine -- Sources
Video recordings -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Women in education -- California -- Irvine.
Women college students -- California -- Irvine.
Photographic prints -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Ephemera -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Newsletters -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
University of California, Irvine. Women's Program Board -- Archives
Chancellor's Affirmative Action Council (University of California, Irvine)
University of California, Irvine. Chancellor's Affirmative Action Council
California Women in Higher Education
University of California, Irvine. Women's Resource Center -- Archives