New and Ongoing Initiatives include:

• Mentoring Spaces. Because of a dearth of consistent and systematic mentoring for junior women faculty on campus, CWIC sponsored a successful mentoring initiative which met every fortnight through the 2006-2007 academic year. Childcare and family issues, the publication process, departmental politics and strategies were among the issues discussed. CWIC would like to offer its gratitude to Kris King and Renee Deguire, WMST staff, for all the help they extended in scheduling and advertising Mentoring Spaces. Tammy Ho (WMST) and Piya Chatterjee (WMST/CWIC) spearheaded this initiative. An informative website has been set up on ilearn. Colleagues from other campuses have also joined this website to have access to this important information. If you are interested in being on-board, please contact Professor Tammy Ho.

• WMST/CWIC Brown Bag Series. Informal Brown Bag Talks were scheduled through 2006-2007. The main goal of these talks was to introduce the university community to feminist “work-in-process.” We organized over 14 such talks through the year. Many thanks to Kris King and Renee Deguire of WMST for expediting all aspects of these talks.

• Feminist Re/Visions: Alternative Theatre and Visual Culture Projects. Professor Lan Duong (FVC and WMST) will spearhead this initiative with colleagues working on gender, nation, race and sexuality in visual cultures.

• Across Other Borders: Humanists, Social Scientists and Scientists on Gender, Science and Medicine. Professor Chikako Takeshita (WMST) will spearhead this initiative which will bring interdisciplinary scholars interested in feminist perspectives, and gender issues, within science and medicine. Given the recent establishment of UCR’s School of Medicine, we are hopeful that this could grow into something substantial.