ABSTRACT
It is essential that women’s and gender centers (WGCs) self-define the research questions of most importance to their work, and enable the kinds of data collection, critical analysis, and commitment to praxis (hooks, 1994) that will most fruitfully advance the work of change on college campuses. This chapter begins with an analysis of what we know to date about women’s center outcomes and the literature discussing the impact of women’s centers on participants’ lives and experiences in the academy. The chapter concludes with a call for education researchers and WGC practitioners to combine forces to produce this scholarship collaboratively, as well as providing a “blueprint” for an effective research team model for the work to come.
