WRC History

Located in McElroy 141, was founded at Boston College in 1973 to support and encourage women in the full attainment of their personal, professional, spiritual, and educational goals. The WRC sponsors many programs throughout the year to meet a wide range of needs and interests at Boston College.

The Center has a lending library of over 1700 volumes on a variety of subjects including health, feminism, domestic violence, sexual abuse, literature, psychology, and careers. A referral section contains information on various organizations and services available both on campus and throughout the Boston area.

The Women's Resouce Center is open to all students, faculty, and staff, offers a comfortable atmosphere to seek information, to find peer support, to participate in programming, and to meet others. For more information, call 617-552-3489 or e-mail wrc@bc.edu.

Women's Resource Center in its First Year

March 12th, 2008 was the 35th Anniversary of the opening of the Women's Resource Center.