WRC Leadership Council
The WRC Leadership Council (WRCLC) is comprised of students who wish to fill volunteer leadership positions within the Women's Resource Center. In addition to the Coordinator, these students will serve as part of the "staff" of the WRC. Students will be expected to attend the Fall Retreat as well as participate in weekly staff meetings and staffing the Women's Resource Center for 8-10 hours per week (Staff meetings count as staff hours). Students will also be expected to attend a minimum of five OIED/WRC events per semester (2 OIED, 3 WRC). Students will be required to complete a end of semester evaluation of events they attended and a written response about their experience on the Council. The hours you spend working on the WRC Leadership Council can apply toward your experiential transcript.
The WRC Leadership Council is an essential component of the Women's Resource Center and their ideas and input are invaluable to the center. Its success in fulfilling the philosophy of the WRC is two-fold. First, staff allow the WRC to adequately serve the needs of women on campus and in the Milledgeville community. Secondly, the program allows staff the opportunity to develop important leadership, community service, networking, and professional skills.
WRC Leadership Council Positions
Technology Assistant
- Help develop and maintain Women's Resource Center website.
- Contribute to WRC semesterly newsletters.
- Assist the coordinator with the management of Facebook group including event postings and monitoring for inappropriate content.
- Update WRC Visitor database.
- Update and organize the WRC Library including book check-outs/check-ins as well as new inputs.
Special Events Assistant
- Work with Women's Resource Center (WRC) staff to develop and implement programming events.
- Assist in the research and collection of information on possible speakers and programs.
- Set up, attend, and clean up programming events, or coordinate staff and volunteers to carry out these responsibilities in your absence.
- Contribute to the WRC newsletter.
- This person will especially work on the following programs: Clothesline Project, Chocolate Festival, The Vagina Monologues and Take Back the Night.
Men's Activism Assistant
- Conduct research on gender issues with specific attention to how these issues affect men.
- Develop creative strategies on how to assess the perceptions men on campus hold about the Women's Resource Center and gender issues and implement educational programs to address these perceptions.
- Help gather information on activist events taking place on campus and in the community.
- Contribute to the WRC newsletter.
- Plan and implement at least one self-initiated project.
Herstorian/Newsletter Assistant
- Photograph WRC and OIED Office programs and events and arrange photos in memory books.
- Create and maintain display boards.
- Contribute to WRC newsletters.
- Develop, create, and publish one newsletter per semester (including an events calendar and other relevant activities).
- Solicit and compose newsletter articles on campus, local and national gender and diversity issues.
- Create and send out monthly WRC listserv announcements.
Programming Assistant
- Plan and implement one Brown Bag Lunch Session per semester.
- Assist in planning discussion groups.
- Assist with publicity for events and inform volunteers/WRC visitors about upcoming events, meetings and workshops.
- Research and evaluate programming opportunities.
- Research and evaluate best practices from other transition and retention programs located statewide, regionally and nationally.
- Contribute to the WRC newsletter.
