Engage  ·  Communicate  ·  Connect  ·  Lead

We invite you to join us for public events and lectures that focus on diverse contemporary and historical issues and involve substantive discussion and meaningful reflection. Our student leadership events include seminars, workshops, annual conferences, and grants designed to support and enhance leadership development and action. Seniors are invited to participate in the Independent Study Network, a supportive forum for all seniors who are working on independent study projects and senior theses. 

Located in Porter Hall, the Weissman Center and its affiliated partners, the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Program, the Community-Based Learning (CBL) Program, and Take the Lead (TTL), provide substantial resources to students as they become effective agents of change in their chosen professions and communities.  The center collaborates with faculty, students, alumnae, student organizations, College offices, and community advocates in order to: engage students critically with important issues; foster their commitment to public and civic life; build their abilities to analyze, argue, and promote their views, and understand better the ways in which women can and do take action and create positive change in the world.

The Weissman Center was established in 1999 through a $4 million gift from Harriet Levine Weissman ’58 and her husband, Paul M. Weissman.  The College’s Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy merged at that time with the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program and became the Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts.