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ACE Leadership Forum Helps Women Move Forward
Aug. 16, 2007
A select group of women administrators from
colleges and universities across the country recently joined the growing
pipeline of women preparing for leadership roles in academia
after completing a three-day
leadership forum hosted by the American Council on Education’s
(ACE) Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE).
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| LaVerne Harmon (right), vice
president for student affairs at Wilmington College, shares her academic
career experiences with the group and Donna Phillips (left), director of
OWHE. |
Nineteen women seeking a springboard to
advance their careers came to Washington, DC in June to attend the 69th
National Leadership Forum.
ACE has long been involved in addressing
the barriers faced by women in academic executive positions
through OWHE's leadership development forums. Over the years, national
and regional leadership forums have played a pivotal role in helping
shape the professional lives of more than 1,500 participants.
During the forum, participants were able
to develop a keener sense of the challenges and rewards facing
today’s higher education executives. Speakers and consultants
drawn from a variety of institutions and search firms guided
participants through the inner workings of academic leadership. Small
group discussions made sessions engaging and interactive.
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| Nancy Archer Martin of J. Robert Scott Executive
Search |
The forum's first session, led
by Senior Search Consultant Nancy Archer Martin of J. Robert Scott
Executive Search, focused on career mapping. Each participant arrived
with a completed comprehensive career assessment tool prior to the start
of the forum: The assessment includes a career mapping questionnaire,
skills assessment, professional goals, and a moral compass
chart.
Martin’s session focused
participants on taking control of their careers and served as a starting
point for working with other executive search consultants later in the
forum.
Two new sessions were added to this
year’s national forum: one on facilities management and another on
working with presidential board relationships.
“What Do I Need to Know about
Facilities Management” was presented by Robert Boyd, associate
vice president for facilities management at California State University
Fresno, and Karen Henley, South Region MetroMarkets business development
director, at Johnson Controls, Inc. and the first woman to become
director of facilities management at Tulane University (LA).
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