The mission of the Center is to increase awareness and promote open dialogue about gender through its resources and services, educational programming and support of gender-related research.
As a result, Bowen appointed Dr. Janet Anderson, Dean of Student Affairs, to head a committee that would determine if a women's center was a feasible idea for Idaho State University.
[citation needed] In December 1999, the Center established the Project Hope Advocacy Program through a grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women.
The Center provides educational programming, the support of gender-related research, and resources that help individuals make important life decisions.
The Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center's library holds books, magazines, and pamphlets on a variety of gender-related topics.
The library holds material that focuses on everyone no matter what their sex, sexual orientation, ethnic or cultural background, religion, abilities or age are.