Events of Interest at AAC&U Annual Meeting

AAC&U will host several events of interest to women in higher education at its 2012 Annual Meeting, to be held January 25–28 in Washington, DC. The annual Networking Breakfast for Women Faculty and Administrators will occur on Thursday, January 26, and will feature Radhika Balakrishnan, executive director of the Center for Global Leadership and professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. The meeting will also include a panel on the gender gap in student leadership featuring Nan Keohane, former president of Duke University, and Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College, among others. In addition, AAC&U affiliate Campus Women Lead will offer a workshop preview. To register for the meeting, titled Shared Futures / Difficult Choices: Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement, and Success, visit www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm.

AAC&U’s Beyond Limits Registry and Beyond Limits Fund

In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of its Program on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW), AAC&U is conducting a yearlong Beyond Limits campaign. OCWW’s editors invite readers to share the work they are doing within their institutions to remove barriers to women’s and girls’ full equity at www.aacu.org/psew/BeyondLimitsRegistry.cfm, or to make a donation to support PSEW’s work on behalf of women in education at www.aacu.org/psew/BeyondLimitsFund.cfm.

NWSA Conference 2011

The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) will hold its annual conference on November 10–13, 2011, in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed around the topic Feminist Transformations, the conference will take up the question, “How are we transforming thinking about social change, social movements, knowledge production and agency and how are these shifts transforming our thinking?” (from the website). For more information about conference presenters, activities, registration, and accommodations, visit www.nwsa.org/conference/index.php.

ACE Fellows Program

The American Council on Education invites applications for its Fellows Program, a year-long opportunity for higher education leaders who aspire to senior leadership. Fellows participate in three national seminars and build networks across the higher education community while spending a significant amount of time on another campus. Applications for the 2012–13 cohort are due on November 1, 2011. For information, visit http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/FellowsProgram/index.htm. 

Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute

The Kaleidoscope Leadership Institutes provides a forum for women of color aspiring to postsecondary leadership to explore issues in higher education and learn from the experiences of successful women-of-color administrators. The 2011 institute will take place on November 30–December 4 at the Fullerton Marriott at California State University, Fullerton. The registration deadline is November 23, 2011. Read about the institute in the spring 2009 issue of On Campus with Women, or download registration forms at http://ed.fullerton.edu/kaleidoscope/index.html.

Myra Sadker Foundation Grants

The Myra Sadker Foundation supports gender equity in and beyond the classroom by promoting research, programs, and practices that advance social justice. To support these goals, the foundation awards grants to teachers and students who promote gender equity in their work. The foundation offers teacher awards, student projects awards, and dissertation awards in amounts up to $2,000 to selected applicants. Applications are due December 1, 2011. For full descriptions of each award and application information, visit www.sadker.org/awards.html.

Conversation on the Gendered Liberal Arts

The Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont College will hold its eleventh annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts on February 24–25, 2012, on its campus in Santa Barbara, California. The two-day event will focus on the theme “The Gendered Liberal Arts? Femininity, Masculinity and the Future of Liberal Education.” The conference will explore questions such as: “How can the liberal arts help us understand gender as it intersects with race, class, sexuality, religious identity and global position? How do the institutional and cultural functions of liberal education resist, or reinscribe, traditional notions of gender? Is the liberal arts campus becoming a ‘feminized space’? What, if anything, is liberating about the liberal arts for gendered beings?” (from the website). To learn more or to register, visit http://www.westmont.edu/institute/conversations/2012_program/ConvOverview.html.