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Article: Indiana U. gender studies plans Ph.D. program
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- October 19, 2004
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Rick Newkirk
University Wire
10-19-2004
(Indiana Daily Student) (U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- When Suzanna Walters trekked from Georgetown University to Bloomington to chair Indiana University's gender studies department, she came in search of greener pastures.
Walters did not come without ambitions. By fall 2006, she hopes IU will have the nation's first doctoral degree program in gender studies.
"The faculty here is phenomenal," she said. "There is wonderful feminist scholarship going on here. This was an opportunity I couldn't pass up." Although the idea has been in the works for about five years, she said, the hurdles ahead of her could be easily jumped with the proper support from state ...