The National Women's Studies Association recently released a new report, Questions for a New Century: Women's Studies and Integrative Learning (2007), by Amy K. Levin, director of Women's Studies and professor of English at Northern Illinois University. The report revisits past analyses of Women's Studies programs and suggests best practices for program assessments that reflect the discipline's inclusive, collaborative values.
The report posits assessment as a tactic for establishing Women's Studies as a worthwhile discipline. Levin begins by reviewing past reports on the discipline, taking Caryn McTighe Musil's study The Courage to Question: Women's Studies and Student ...