Women's Center
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Invite the Women's Center to come speak!
Invite a staff member to come speak in your class, organization, business, church, or other group to share about the work of the Women’s Center or to educate your group on a feminist or violence prevention issue. See more about our current presentation menu offerings HERE. To request a presentation, contact Rebecca at rebecca.kotz@stcloudstate.edu
Employment/Internships
Each year, the Women’s Center employs a graduate assistant and paid programming and outreach assistants. We also host graduate and undergraduate interns whose interests match our work. Handshake is the platform we use for applications. Our primary student employment hiring season is in the late spring: March/April. However, we occasionally hire in the fall. Follow us on social media to see hiring announcements. Please contact us with any questions or inquiries!
Become a trained sexual assault/gender violence advocate
Are you interested in working with victims/survivors of gender violence? St. Cloud State and the Central MN Sexual Assault Center (CMSAC) offer the training required by the state of MN to become a sexual assault advocate. At SCSU, this class is a 3-credit class: HURL 406. The training can also be taken online through CMSAC for $75 fee (or for free if students agree to a one-year volunteer commitment to CMSAC). Check the CMSAC website for more details.
Women’s Center staff and interns are required to complete this training if they would like to apply for a gender violence program-related internship or employment.
Student Organizations
If you would like to get involved in any of these organizations below, please add your contact details and select the organizations you are interested in HERE.
- PERIOD chapter is a student organization that tackles issues related to period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy, as outlined by the national organization, PERIOD. If you'd like to support the Aunt Flow program which provides free tampons and pads in bathroom dispensers at Atwood Memorial Center, please take this survey!
- Gender violence awareness committee (currently inactive) is a student group/organization that raises awareness and takes action to promote affirmative sexual consent and equity, non-abusive relationships, and confront rape culture on campus and in the community. If you’d like to get involved or are interested in re-activating a student organization that focuses on gender violence issues, please email rebecca.kotz@stcloudstate.edu
- Students for Choice is a student organization that opposes any attempt to limit a person’s right to choose and access to all reproductive health options. They organize to educate, promote, and address reproductive health topics.
Consider the Women's Center as part of your Huskies Advance experience! Our opportunities are an excellent fit for Leadership, Civic Engagement, and Social Justice track students.
Submit your story
Dear Pat is a catalogue of stories, rants, and experiences of everyday sexism, misogyny, and patriarchal violence. You're invited to submit your story virtually or in-person at the Women's Center.
Make a Donation
- Monetary: To contribute financially to the Women’s Center, please visit the St. Cloud State University Foundation. Please be sure to note that you wish for the Women's Center to be the recipient of your donation in the remarks section for electronic donations or in the memo of check donations.
- Supplies: We accept new, unused, unexpired, and unopened menstrual and safer sex supplies, including tampons, liners, maxi pads, menstrual cups, internal and external condoms, dams, lubricant, pregnancy tests, and emergency contraception.
- Gift cards: Donations to local stores, such as Target or Walmart, can assist students seeking supplies not offered by the Women’s Center. We also accept gift card donations that can be used at promotional events, as drawings/prizes, and/or to invite engagement with the Women’s Center programming. Places students like gift cards to include Korppi Coffee, Caribou, Starbucks, Domino’s Pizza, Jules Bistro, Chipotle, Noodles, and other nearby coffee shops and fast food restaurants. Pizza-deliver gift cards are great as a giveaway for our Sex + Pizza workshop on sexual communication and consent in card amounts of $15-25.
- Books: We always welcome feminist book donations on women’s, gender, sexuality, anti-oppression, social justice, and violence-related issues. Please contact us if you would like to inquire about specific titles we are looking for or before making a bulk donation (bulk donations are great for book clubs and giveaways)! We especially appreciate donations of newer titles (published within the last 5 years).
- Because of our space and storage limitations, we are usually not able to accept other donations. For more information and questions about donation opportunities, please contact us!
