Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlights 35 outstanding women during Women’s History Month

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlights 35 outstanding women during Women’s History Month.

FAIRFAX, Va. — In honor of Women’s History Month, Diverse will publish its eighth annual special report recognizing the contributions of women to higher education.

To be circulated at several annual higher education meetings, the March 21, 2019 edition will highlight 35 women who have made a difference in the academy by tackling some of higher education’s toughest challenges, exhibiting extraordinary leadership skills and making a positive difference in their respective communities.

The 2019 class of leading women in higher education will be (in alphabetical order):

1. Dr. Julie Ajinkya, Vice President of Applied Research, Institute for Higher Education Policy
2. Dr. Katrice Albert, Executive VP of Inclusion and Human Resources, NCAA
3. Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis, President, Benedict College
4. Ms. Josefina Castillo Baltodano, Senior Associate – External Relations of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley
5. Dr. Margarita Bianco, Professor of Education, University of Colorado Denver
6. Ms. Dorothy Bland, Professor of Journalism, University of North Texas
7. Dr. Tiffany F. Boykin, Dean of Student Engagement, Anne Arundel Community College
8. Ms. Bonita Brown, Vice President of Network Engagement, Achieving the Dream
9. Dr. Sherri Ann Charleston, Assistant Vice Provost, Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10. Ms. Sharon Davies, Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Spelman College
11. Dr. Lori Patton Davis, Professor of Education, Indiana University School of Education, Indianapolis
12. Dr. Adela de la Torre, President, San Diego State University
13. Dr. Beatriz Espinoza, President, Coastal Bend College
14. Dr. Kassie Freeman, President and CEO, African Diaspora Consortium
15. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology, founding director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, Temple University
16. Dr. Mary Hawkins, President, Bellevue University
17. Dr. Lisa M. Lynch, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Brandeis University
18. Ms. Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University
19. Dr. Shirley I. Metcalf, President, Central Oregon Community College
20. Dr. Anna McPhatter, Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Morgan State University
21. Dr. Lily D. McNair, President, Tuskegee University
22. Dr. Belinda Miles, President, Westchester Community College
23. Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller, President, LeMoyne-Owen College
24. Ms. Camille Nelson, Dean, Professor of Law, American University
25. Dr. LaToya Owens, Director of Learning and Evaluation, Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute at United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
26. Dr. Janita Patrick, Dean of Student Support Services, Richland College, Dallas County Community College District
27. Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges & Universities
28. Dr. Sumun Pendakur, Chief Learning Officer and Director of the USC Equity Institutes, University of Southern California
29. Dr. Ella L.J. Bell Smith, Professor of Business, Dartmouth College
30. Dr. Stella Smith, Associate Director of the MACH III Center, Prairie View A&M University
31. Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) J. Stroble, President, Webster University
32. Dr. Marta Tienda, Professor of Demographic Studies, Princeton University
33. Dr. Astrid Tuminez, President, Utah Valley University
34. Dr. Montressa L. Washington, Assistant Professor of Management, Shenandoah University
35. Dr. Marjorie S. Zatz, Vice Provost & Dean of Graduate Education/Professor of Sociology, University of California Merced

For more than three decades, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has been America’s premier source of timely news, provocative commentary, insightful interviews and in-depth special reports on diversity in higher education. Savvy individuals who appreciate the crucial and ever-changing role that higher education plays in the lives of students, professionals, their families and their communities make reading Diverse a regular habit.