Functions
The Women's Leadership Consortium fulfills the following functions in support of women at Iowa State:
- to serve as a resource for the President and the Executive Vice President and Provost, along with the UCW
- to share information about on-going initiatives, issues, and plans
- to coordinate and leverage activities of individual programs and committees
- to coordinate and co-sponsor events, from Women's History Month to Colloquia
- to propose new policy and programming initiatives (sponsoring conferences, proposing hiring, etc.)
- to supervise the continuation of leadership initiatives in support of women, such as SLIC and Truman Scholars
- to support the recruitment and retention of women of color as students and employees
- to enhance the mentoring of women employed on campus
- to undertake coordinated fund raising associated with women's issues and programs
- to seek grant funding for scholarly and instructional initiatives

