Support Services

Academic support

• Individual meetings to discuss academic success strategies
• Semesterly Women in STEM Dinners

Educational Presentations

• Gender bias
• Intersectional feminism
• Sexism

Financial Support

• Bridge to Benefits – state and federal benefits assessment including: healthcare, SNAP (grocery money), WIC, energy assistance, and more!
• Emergency Grant Counseling http://www.mnsu.edu/emergencygrant/
• Scholarships – apply on Scholarship Finder https://mnsu.academicworks.com/
  • Bonnie Teigum Scholarship
  • Coplan Donohue Single Parent Scholarship
  • Mary Jane Young Scholarship for Re-Entry Women
• Student travel reimbursements

Pregnant and Parenting Students

• Advocacy consultations – how to talk to professors when you anticipate missing class for appointments/childbirth
• Lactation space
• Refrigerator for breastmilk

Space

• Charging station
• Coffee and tea
• Lounge with couches, television, and conference table
• Lactation supplies: milk storage bags, nursing pads
• Menstrual products: tampons, pads, pregnancy tests
• Protection: condoms, dental dams