Development from 2000's-2010's
Within the past two decades, there has been a push to celebrate the efforts and successes of department, while striving for a future view of the department. This included changing the name of the department to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies to reflect the new curriculum, as well as developing a new minor in LGBTIQQA and critical sexuality studies. The ongoing focus of the deaprtment is to bring previously invisible fields of study and methods of discourse into the light, and to promote the progression of societal equity.