The Center has two arms that work independently and/or collaboratively, to engage and advance women and the BGLTQ+ community at the University of Central Oklahoma, the great Oklahoma City metropolitan region and beyond. The Women's Research Center at UCO collaborates with scholars and activists on campus and off campus in interdisciplinary scholarly, creative, and pedagogical projects in the field
s of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. It promotes intellectual engagement with women's and gender issues and supports the interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor as well as host conferences and symposia about women's issues. Furthermore, it makes available to the campus community materials relevant to women's health, models good health practices, and supports the development of campus childcare services. The BGLTQ+ Student Center supports bisexual, gay, le***an, transgender, intersex, asexual, q***r, questioning, and allied students by hosting educational and social programs that address issues of concern of the BGLTQ+ community; by sponsoring student organizations that serve the BGLTQ+ students and their allies and provide leadership opportunities for BGLTQ+ students; by advocating for BGLTQ+ students in university- and unit-level strategic planning, budgeting, curricular development, and programming processes, and by promoting civic engagement and fostering strategic partnerships in the wider BGLTQ+ community.
