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In the Beginning there was Nancy

Nancy K. Schlossberg is a woman whom many of you do not know but to whom all women who have been helped by an OWHE program owe a large helping of gratitude.

In her work as the first Director of the American Council on Education's Office of Women in Higher Education (1973), she provided the platform on which all of the subsequent directors built.

She came from Wayne State University where she headed one of the first University Commission on Women, and, upon leaving ACE, joined the University of Maryland faculty, working in the fields of adult transition and development and intergenerational relationships. She continues today as a speaker and author. One of her recent books, Retire Smart, Retire Happy, became a PBS special.

Her next book, Revitalizing Retirement:  Reshaping your Identity, Relationships, and Purpose, will be published February of 2009.

All of us at OWHE recognize her seminal contribution to the advancement of women administrators in higher education and offer our most admiring thanks.

—Submitted by Donna Burns Phillips, Director
   Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE)