Women’s Leadership Speaker Series

​Intersectionality and Women of Color in Higher Education Leadership

September 28, 2022

​​Today’s challenges require leadership that is well-respected, well-positioned, and well-resourced at the institutional level to identify and implement meaningful strategies.

Representing only 5.4 percent of top executive officers at non-minority serving institutions, women of color experience leadership roles quite differently from men and white women leaders. Based on the pioneering work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality provides a prism, or lens, to better understand how the intersection of sexism and racism impacts women of color.

​Join us for the fourth installment in the Women’s Leadership Speaker Series, as Maria Gallo, president of the ACE Women’s Network Executive Council, engages in dialogue with three distinguished women of color in executive leadership roles.

Participants​​

• Maria Gallo, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• Paulette Dilworth, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Judy C. Miner, Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza Community College District
• Belle Wheelan, President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges

​Title IX: Celebrating 50 Year​​s and Preparing for the Future

July 13​, 2022 

Title IX passed​​ 50 years ago.

Since that momentous event on June 23, 1972, the education sector has been realizing advances in gender equity and sex discrimination has been prohibited in any educational program or activity receiving federal funds.

Help us celebrate this milestone ​and join our discussion on progress made so far and plans for the next 50 years. We will acknowledge the many accomplishments resulting from Title IX passage and consider future legislative implications that aim to accomplish optimum gender equity across every aspect of higher education.

Participants​​

• Luoluo Hong, Vice President for Student Engagement and Well-Being, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Gayle E. Hutchinson, President, California State University, Chico
• Linda Livingstone, President, Baylor University
• Fayneese S. Miller, President, Hamline University

A Conversation With Thasunda Brown Duckett

March 5, 2022

WNEC chair Judy Sakaki engaged TIAA’s CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett in a conversation about issues important for women leaders.

This event took place at the ACE Women’s Leadership Dinner in San Diego, in conjunction with ACE2022, ACE’s Annual Meeting.

Participants​​

• Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA
• Judy Sakaki, President, Sonoma State University (CA), and Past Chair, Women's Network Executive Council (WNEC)

Advancing to Leadership Roles in Higher Education: A Conversation with Scholars Barbara Cozza and Ceceilia Parnther

February 8, 2022

The inaugural event of the ACE Women’s Leadership Speaker Series featured scholars Barbara Cozza and Ceceilia Parnther from the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University discussing their upcoming book, Voices from Women Leaders on Success in Higher Education. The book, scheduled for release in February 2022, advises aspiring and current women leaders on how to advance into higher education leadership roles.

Ted Mitchell, president of ACE, and Judy K. Sakaki, chair of the ACE Women’s Network Executive Council and president of Sonoma State University, joined the dynamic conversation with the authors.

Participants​​

• Barbara Cozza, Chairperson and Professor, Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership, St. John's University
• Ted Mitchell, President, American Council on Education
• Ceceilia Parnther, Assistant Professor, Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership, St. John's University
• Judy Sakaki, President, Sonoma State University (CA), and Past Chair, Women's Network Executive Council (WNEC)