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WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIESVol II., No. 8 April 1996 COORDINATOR'S CORNER This issue profiles Dr. Sandra Powell, new Executive Council member from the College of Business and Economics and a faculty participant in several Women's Studies courses. Thanks to Sandra for all her contributions. The reviewers' report on the Women's Studies Program for the five-year Regents' Review has been distributed to faculty for feedback prior to my preparing the final response and summary statement. Thanks for your consideration of and comments on the report. During the early part of April, I will be setting up the accounts for the traditional
student scholarship in Women's Studies and the Patti O'Neal Memorial Dance Scholarship.
Neither of these has accumulated enough funds to generate interest, allowing them to
continue beyond near future. I would invite (well, OK, encourage, at least; probably,
urge) you to send contributions for either or both of these scholarships to the Women's
Studies Program, 12l7 University Circle, WSU, Ogden, UT 84408-1217. FACULTY PROFILE: Dr. Sandra Powell is an almost-alumna of Weber State, attending until her senior year, when she married and moved to Salt Lake City to finish her undergraduate education at the University of Utah. Following graduation, she taught 8th grade English for two years while her husband, Elwood, attended law school. After he received his degree, they moved east and spent several years in the Washington,D.C. area before returning to Salt Lake City. At that time, Sandra attended law school at the University of Utah and, with degree in hand, spent two years in a law practice, focusing first on real-estate law and then working for First Security Bank as a corporate trust officer. During this country-wide series of adventures, Sandra had three children to add to the excitement, two (Brian and Hilary)born in D.C. and the third (Lynette) while she attended law school in Salt Lake. With the arrival of number four (Steven), she quit her law practice and was a "stay-at-home mother" for four years, during which time Christopher was born, completing the family. In 1984, she returned to school at the University of Utah, intending to get an MBA as a transition back into law practice. However, her recruitment into the PhD program changed those plans and she embarked on a dissertation with a primary interest in justice considerations. Her original research plans centered around employee perceptions of justice concerning drug testing; this research took an unexpected turn mid-way when she found herself studying instead employee perceptions of justice as they were laid off from work. Sandra completed her metamorphosed dissertation work and received her PhD in 1992. Sandra has taught at Weber State for nearly six years in the Business Administration Department. Her course load there includes Organizational Behavior, Labor and Employment Law, Business Ethics and Environmental Responsibility and Consumer Behavior. Her Women's Studies faculty responsibilities have been as part of teams teaching Feminist Theories (with Kathryn MacKay and Raycine Brown), Women in the World Economy (with Sarah Tinkler) and Sex Roles and the Law (with Barry Gomberg). This quarter she is the primary faculty member in Sex Roles and the Law, with "guest appearances" by Barry, Kathryn and Michelle Heward, the newest member of the Criminal Justice faculty. She is completing her initial year on the Executive Council, the first representative from the College of Business and Economics. Although she doesn't have much time for hobbies, Sandra's most engaging current
extracurricular interest is her one-year old granddaughter, Whitney, who, along with her
mother Lynette, shares Sandra's and Elwood's home. |
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