WRC Mission, Goals, and Values
The PCC Sylvania Women’s Resource Center (WRC), the first location, was founded in 1995 by Deborah Evind to provide a central location for services that support the academic achievement of women, while working to increase access to education for women, improve the retention of women students at the college, and encourage women’s leadership development.
Mission
The Portland Community College’s campus-based Women’s Resource Centers (WRC) apply the principles of intersectional, multicultural feminism to resist and dismantle sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression in order to support the success of all students at PCC and center women-identified students.
Goals
- Support women in making informed choices regarding academic, career, and personal life by providing accurate information, support, and education.
- Acknowledge the many ways that trans and non-binary people, people of color, and especially transgender women of color have been left out of our movements. We are open to students of all gender identities and are working to ensure we are centering the experiences of all women in our services.
- Develop women’s leadership by supporting student-led programs and providing training in leadership skills.
- Bring feminist theory into practice to impact women’s daily lives; encourage self-exploration and understanding of issues critical to women and society.
- Actively seek the end of oppression based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
- Collaborate with students, college resources, staff, faculty, members of the PCC community and beyond.
Values
- Providing the highest quality services possible to our students and community.
- Defining our work from varied feminist perspectives around women’s culture, women’s oppression, and women’s resistance.
- Using programming and resources to decrease isolation and increase support networks.
- Communicating with care and respect.
- Responsible use of fiscal and human resources to serve students in fulfilling the goals of Student Wellbeing, Engagement, & Belonging and the Portland Community College mission.