We need to improve our understanding of how to address these various audiences and maintain our high standards for instruction. We need to provide more classes which address issues of ethnic diversity and we need to continue to assist the University in its efforts to hire more women and ethnic minority faculty. With strategic hires, classes serving the Native American, rural, Hispanic, and other ethnic minority women in the Northland and the state would do much to improve the quality of intellectual life for these students as well as for the rest of the University community. In time, we could become a center for Native American and Hispanic women's concerns. With proper support and discussion, off-campus program delivery might be possible.
More work needs to be done on curriculum integration campus-wide.
Class offerings need to be expanded to include new and revised offerings in education, business, political science, history, modern languages, and other areas. We need to improve our ability to provide incentives to units to release faculty and provide aid in the hiring of faculty who have interest and background in the areas needing growth in Women's Studies. We need to improve our ability to provide better campus-wide understandings of gender scholarship and research. Expanding our training of the faculty about feminist scholarship, as well as the expansion of our Gopher on-line data bases are the immediate areas of improvement required. We will continue to lack a sense of programmatic stability due to the absence of interdisciplinary WST faculty, sufficient budget, and mechanisms for supporting faculty research, such as travel monies.