{"id":77,"date":"2015-08-06T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwgst.cah.ucf.edu\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:40:13","slug":"mission-vision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/womengender\/mission-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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Mission<\/h2>\n

Our mission<\/strong> is to provide the best education related to women\u2019s and gender issues through our curricular and co-curricular programming on campus, and to support women and their endeavors. Off campus, we recognize our responsibility to serve the larger Orlando community by striving to build and sustain partnerships that demonstrate the pragmatic importance of the issues concerning our program.<\/p>\n

Vision<\/h2>\n

Our program has an interdisciplinary vision<\/strong> of using research and teaching to focus on the relations of gender among various races, abilities, ethnicities, sexualities, social class and other differences in our society.<\/p>\n

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Support Our Program<\/h2>\n

You can support Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at UCF with tax-deductible contributions including online donations. Find out more about how to make a gift. Donations sponsor student and faculty mentoring groups, recruitment materials, supplies and expenses for mentoring groups and more.
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2026\u20132027 Advisory Board<\/h2>\n
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  • Edwanna Andrews – Ginsburg Center for Inclusion and Community Engagement<\/span>, Assistant VP<\/li>\n
  • Michael Armato – Sociology, Associate Lecturer<\/li>\n
  • Amy Barnickel – Writing & Rhetoric, Senior Lecturer<\/li>\n
  • Anne Bubriski – Women’s and Gender Studies, Director<\/li>\n
  • Robert Cassanello – History Department, UFF President<\/li>\n
  • Ilenia Col\u00f3n Mendoza – School of Visual Arts & Design, Professor<\/li>\n
  • Annabelle Conroy – Political Science, Associate Lecturer<\/li>\n
  • Mariah Fermin – WGST alumna, School Social Worker<\/li>\n
  • Betsy Kalin – Nicholson School of Communication & Media, Assistant Professor
    \nJoo Kim – School of Visual Arts & Design, Associate Professor<\/li>\n
  • Holly Masturzo – WGST alumna, Seminole State College<\/li>\n
  • Holly McDonald – School of Performing Arts, Senior Lecturer<\/li>\n
  • Dan Novatnak – Games and Interactive Media, Associate Instructor<\/li>\n
  • Leandra Preston – Women’s and Gender Studies, Senior Lecturer<\/li>\n
  • Beatriz Reyes-Foster – Anthropology, Professor and Associate Dean<\/li>\n
  • Cecilia Rodr\u00edguez Milan\u00e9s – English, Professor<\/li>\n
  • Jennifer Sandoval – Nicholson School of Communication & Media, Associate Professor<\/li>\n
  • M.C. Santana – Professor Emerita<\/li>\n
  • Mike Shier – Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR), Director<\/li>\n
  • Cassi Willard – Blackstone LaunchPad @ UCF, Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Guests<\/h3>\n
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    • Lyman Brodie – College of Arts & Humanities, Executive Dean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullscreen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMission and Vision - Women's and Gender\u00a0Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UCF's Women\u2019s and Gender Studies' mission is to provide the best education on women\u2019s and gender issues throughout the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/womengender\/mission-vision\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mission and Vision - 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