Scholarships and Awards
WRAC administers or helps to administer a number of scholarships and awards on campus, including the Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award.
The Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award
The Women's Resource & Action Center and the Council on the Status of Women are accepting nominations for the 2024 Jean Y. Jew Women's Rights Award. The award, given annually by the Council on the Status of Women and the Women's Resource and Action Center, honors a faculty, staff, or student member of the University community who has demonstrated outstanding effort or achievement in improving the status of women at the University.
Some of the previous Jean Y. Jew Women's Rights Award Recipients include:
- Susan Buckley, Pre-Vocational Training
- Rusty Barceló, Office of the Provost
- Nancy Hauserman, Management & Organizations
- Clara Oleson, UI Labor Center
- Yvonne "Bonnie" Slatton, Sport, Health, Leisure and Physical Studies
- Christine H. B. Grant, Women's Athletics
- Susan R. Johnson, College of Medicine
- Jean Martin, Motor Vehicle Maintenance Service
- Susan Beckett, Engineering Computer Network
- Pat Cain, College of Law
- Chris Brus, WISE
- Rachel Zuckerman, UISG
- Susan Birrell, GWSS
- Susan Junis, RVAP
Criteria
Candidates should have a strong record of support for women's rights in a broad sense, a commitment to women's rights at The University of Iowa, and one or more of the following related to women's rights:
- Particular contributions to The University of Iowa
- Long-standing record of leadership, effort, and activism.
- Accomplishments with national scope or impact