Women's Resource Center at the University of Utah

In 1974 the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, Ms. Magazine is founded, Title IX is passed, the average cost of a new car is $3,750.00, and the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) at the University of Utah founded.

The WRC continues to serve as the central resource for educational and support services for women.  Honoring the complexities of women’s identities, the WRC facilitates choices and changes through programs, counseling, and training grounded in a commitment to advance social justice and equality.

The Women’s Resource Center at the University of Utah

Educating Women Educating Utah

We’re Doing Our Part

This is Really Big

We are proud to announce that Debra Daniels, LCSW, has been appointed a dual role as the new assistant vice president of the Women’s Enrollment Initiative as well as maintaining her status as the Director of the WRC.

Scholarship Support for Students

• The WRC dispensed and managed $234,00 for 71 scholars this year
• 36 Graduated (50% graduation rate)
• 23 Reapplied for 2014-2015 (47% retention rate – includes those enrolled at the U, but did not reapply for scholarships)
• 83% graduation/retention rate for scholarship recipients

Continuation Grants for Students

• The WRC awarded $23,353 emergency funds/continuation grants to 48 students
• We have an 88% retention and graduation for our recipients

Support Services to Enhance Retention and Graduation of Students

• The Feminist Multicultural Training program provides counseling services to students that affords them the emotional and holistic support that contributes
  to persistence and graduation
• The counseling program serviced 63 individual clients with 692 individual sessions, and provided 900 group counseling hours to 96 clients who represent both the University and general Salt Lake City community
• Our Student Access and Retention Initiative (U START) seeks to support and retain students
  admitted under the Universities 5% policy, and is comprised primarily of first generation, under performing, and/or underrepresented students
• This year we expanded USTART to include a second year experience and added a freshman and transfer cohort from the Refugee Educational Initiatives first year students to the program with great success

Outreach Programming

• The Go Girlz Community Initiative seeks to provide access to education for underserved and marginalized students grades 6 thru 12 in the Salt Lake City school district through empowerment based programming
• Go Girlz continues to expand to the middle and high school schools throughout the Salt Lake Valley with 43 students participating; consequently we relocated the program to the University of Utah Campus to further immerse students into the University of Utah campus
• In its third year, Jackson Elementary continues to be our onsite program for sixth graders
• Currently there are 55 Go Girlz Undergraduate students enrolled at the University; nine
  students have graduated with Bachelor Degrees and four are in Graduate School