WRI

When I found out that BYU was eliminating the Women's Research Institute my heart sank. I've been a part of the WRI since my sophomore year and seen the many lives it has changed. The WRI is privately funded by Alumni who think that researching women's issues is worth their cash...God bless them! Here is a brief background explaining what the WRI is and what is currently going on to save the institute. If you feel like signing the petition at the end of the blog just click on the link. thanks gals!
Here is the text from the flyer so that it is more easily searchable to the world-wide web.

WHY IS WOMEN'S RESEARCH IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE?
Women everywhere have a great capacity for service in their homes, families and communities.
Women have been under studied and underestimated throughout centuries.
Studying women can bring education, understanding, cross-cultural connection and peace.

WHAT IS BYU'S WOMEN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
Originally instituted by President Dallin H. Oaks in 1978.
Provides an interdisciplinary scholastic community for over 80 BYU affiliates studying women and gender.
Facilitated the publication on hundreds of articles and books by projects such as the Mormon Women's History Project, the WomanStats Project — now used by the UN, and the Peace and Violence in the Home Project.

HOW WILL CLOSING THE WRI AFFECT WOMEN'S RESEARCH AT BYU?
We will lose the only university research center that studies women and gender through a Gospel lens.
Separating teaching faculty from research faculty will deprive students of the opportunity to work with teams of faculty engaged in serious academic discourse on the study of women.
There are questions about the final allocation of the WRI Endowment Fund.
No US university has closed their women's research center over the past 20 years­—which may cause people to wonder and damage the reputation of BYU and the Church as a friend to women and their concerns.
DO YOU CARE ABOUT WOMEN'S RESEARCH?
sign the petition www.supportWRI.org