ACE Donna Shavlik Award

 

​​​​​​This award was established by ACE in 1999 to honor the long and outstanding service of Donna Shavlik, past director of ACE’s former Office of Women in Higher Education. The award honors an individual whose leadership demonstrates a sustained commitment to advancing women in higher education through actions or initiatives enhancing women’s leadership and career development, campus climate, and mentoring of women at both the state and national levels.

 

2024 Winner

Marjorie Hass, president of The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)

 
 
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Past Award Recipients

ACE has been bestowing the Donna Shavlik Award since 1999, when Donna Shavlik herself became the first ever recipient. Click to expand the area below to learn more about our past recipients.

2023 - Soraya M. Coley, President, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

2022 - Deborah F. Stanley, Interim Chancellor, The State University of New York (SUNY)
2021 - Women in Executive Search (Betty Turner Asher, Dean Dowdall, Jan Greenwood, Narcisa Polonio, and Shelley Storbeck)
​2020 - Carole Moore, Interim President, Guilford College
2019 - Carol S. Leary, President, Bay Path University (MA)
2018 - Judith S. White, President and Executive Director of HERS (Higher Education Resource Services)
2017 - Judy Genshaft, President, University of South Florida​​​
​2016 - ​Lucie Lapovsky, President, Lapovsky Consulting​
2015 - Madlyn Hanes, Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses for The Pennsylvania State University​
2014 - ​Elaine P. Maimon, Governors State University (IL)
2013 - Karen Haynes, President, California State University San Marcos​
2012 - Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College (GA)
2011 - Susan L. Perry, Senior Advisor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2010 - Blenda J. Wilson, President Emerita, California State University, Northridge Educational Policy Consultant &
Board Chair, HERS
2009 - Peggy Ryan Williams, President Emerita, Ithaca College (NY)
2008 - Adrian Tinsley, President Emerita, Bridgewater State College (MA)
2007 - Yolanda T. Moses, Past President of the American Anthropological Association (VA), Professor of Anthropology and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence at the University of California, Riverside
2006 - Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami
2005 - Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) (DC)
2004 - Bette E. Landman, President, Arcadia University (PA)
2003 - Bernice (Bunny) Sandler, Senior Scholar, Women's Research and Education Institute (DC)
2002 - Cynthia Secor, Founder, Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration Bryn Mawr College (PA) and HERS New England Management Institute for Women in Higher Education, Wellesley College (MA)
2001 - Jan Holmgren, President, Mills College (CA)
2000 - Judy Touchton, former Associate Director, ACE's former Office of Women in Higher Education
1999 - Donna Shavlik, former Director, ACE's former Office of Women in Higher Education

 
 

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​​If you have any questions about the Donna Shavlik Award, please email womensnetwork@acenet.edu.​


Sponsor​

ACE is grateful to Fidelity for its support of this award.

 

The American Council on Education and Fidelity Investments® are independent entities and are not legally affiliated. The recipient of the ACE Donna Shavlik Award is selected solely by ACE. Fidelity employees are not involved in any way in determining, selecting, or approving the recipient of any award.​