Women's Studies at Keene State College is an interdisciplinary program that explores, from a feminist and global perspective, the contributions, ideas, and experience of women in all areas of society. The program seeks to actively engage the campus community in the examination of and discourse about women's lives in all their diversity, including age, sexual preference, race, ethnicity, and social class. Participants are committed to the integration of scholarship by women into the academic curriculum and to the continued refinement of a vision that values women's social, political, professional, and personal development.

During the spring of 1989, a small group of women faculty at KSC met to discuss their common desire for a women's studies program and their committment to creating one. In the spring of 1992, the Women's Studies Program was approved as an official minor at the College. It has been going strong ever since. Every year, a small but special group of students graduates not just with a required major in a particular discipline but with an interdisciplinary minor that prepares them for a variety of career fields. Some of our graduates today are teachers, artists, activists and health service workers; some have pursued higher degrees in law, midwifery, theology, education, literature, and psychology.