{"id":65731,"date":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professor-selected-woman-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professor-selected-woman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/uri-professor-selected-woman-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professor selected \u2018Woman of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKaren Stein chosen by R.I. Commission on Women<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON — September 5, 2007–The Rhode Island Commission on Women has named Karen Stein one of three \u201c2007 Women of the Year.\u201d Stein is a 溏心vlog免费B站 English professor and one of the founders and the current director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program.<\/p>\n


\n The Rhode Island Commission on Women is a 26-member commission. The non-profit state agency\u2019s mission is to advance women toward full equity.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe commission\u2019s annual award recognizes women who demonstrate a significant positive impact on the lives of women in the state through their work as role models and mentors.<\/p>\n


\nStein, a Kingston resident, began as a part-time lecturer for the 溏心vlog免费B站 English Department in 1970, focusing on modern North American women writers. Two years later, she helped found and develop the Women\u2019s Studies Program at the University. The program began with 200 students and 10 faculty members. With Stein\u2019s guidance, it has grown to encompass more than 1,000 students involved in more than 25 interdisciplinary courses. <\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to developing the introductory course in women\u2019s studies, Stein helped develop the senior seminar, which helps launch women\u2019s studies majors into their professional lives. As an English professor, she developed more than 12 courses on women writers and American authors.<\/p>\n


\nDuring her years at 溏心vlog免费B站, Stein has headed various committees to improve working conditions for part-time faculty, who are primarily women. She served for two years as the co-chair of the 溏心vlog免费B站 President\u2019s Commission on the Status of Women, and helped to develop a new parental leave policy. The 溏心vlog免费B站 Commission is currently working on new strategies to address sexual harassment and other issues of concern to women. In 1993, the 溏心vlog免费B站 women\u2019s group, the Association of Professional and Academic Women, named Stein its \u201cWoman of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nStein has dedicated her time to promoting the equality and advancement of women, not only within the university community, but throughout the state as well. She volunteered as an English as a second language tutor for two years, and prepared women from Iran, China, Korea and Brazil, to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language. This test, if passed, enabled the women to enter college and be certified for professional jobs similar to ones they held in their home countries. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI\u2019m excited, humbled, and grateful,\u201d Stein said about winning the award. \u201cThis award is not just for me, I\u2019m like the tip of the iceberg. Many people helped build the organizations that I currently represent or work for, so I am enormously grateful to accept the award on their behalf.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nThe \u201c2007 Women of the Year Award\u201d dinner will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Radisson Airport Hotel in Warwick. The reception will begin at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the awards program at 7 p.m. Tickets for the event cost $45.<\/p>\n


\nFor information on this event, or to purchase tickets, call the R.I. Commission on Women at 401-225-6105 or e-mail swells@ricw.ri.gov. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karen Stein chosen by R.I. Commission on Women KINGSTON — September 5, 2007–The Rhode Island Commission on Women has named Karen Stein one of three \u201c2007 Women of the Year.\u201d Stein is a 溏心vlog免费B站 English professor and one of the founders and the current director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Women\u2019s Studies Program. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}