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Location: The Center for Sex and Gender Relations is located on the 3rd floor of Case College Center Telephone: 518 580-8255
Mission Statement:
The Center for Sex and Gender Relations works with students, faculty and staff to educate and support healthy and equitable relationships, both personal and professional, between and among women and men.
The Center’s objectives include:
- Education about sexual assault and prevention of sexual assault
- Advocacy of victim’s of sexual assault
- Education about issues of sexuality, gender identity, and safe-sex
- Education about gender equity, sexual harassment, and sex-roles
- Promotion and support of women’s, men’s, and GLBT support networks on campus
The Center serves as a resource for service learning, and collaborates with students and faculty on research projects and other independent and group study opportunities. The Center also serves a coordinating function for various SGA clubs and organizations whose missions are compatible with that of the Center. The Center forges working partnerships with these organizations in producing co-curricular programs and activities that respond to the above-stated objectives. In addition, The Center provides professional advising, guidance, and leadership training to the active leaders of the organizations with which the Center is connected.
The Center is a component of the Office of Campus Life; thus, is administered by the associate dean of student affairs and director of the office of campus life. The associate dean is responsible for providing visionary leadership for The Center, advising and leadership training for student organizations affiliated with The Center, and chairing the tri-partite advisory council of The Center. The Health Educator, who is a standing member of the advisory council, works with The Center’s affiliated student organizations in producing co-sponsored events that meet the Center’s education objectives.
The advisory council of The Center, comprised of faculty, staff and student leaders provides professional expertise and guidance with regard to The Center’s direction, promotion, programs, policies, fiscal management, and assessment. The Chair shall convene the advisory council no less than seven times per semester and will call upon members of the advisory council to lead various projects and new initiatives.
While the administration of The Center is the responsibility the office of campus life, The Center relies on the commitment and partnership of the SGA, the active involvement and presence of student clubs and organizations, and the deliberate academic engagement of faculty to make it a student-centered successful endeavor.
