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FAIRFAX, Va. — In honor of Women’s History Month, Diverse will publish its annual special report recognizing women’s contributions to higher education.
The March 4, 2021 edition represents our 10th anniversary of highlighting 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 2021 class of leading women in higher education are (in alphabetical order):
- Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president, University of Louisville
- Dr. Venessa A. Brown, associate chancellor and chief diversity officer, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Dr. Karen Carey, chancellor, University of Alaska Southeast (UAS)
- Laurie A Carter, president, Shippensburg University
- Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, associate provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, Northwestern University
- Dr. Karlyn Crowley, provost, Ohio Wesleyan University
- Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, professor of education emeritus and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute, Stanford University
- Dr. Carol Fierke, provost and executive vice president, Brandeis University
- Dr. Angélica Garcia, president, Berkeley City College
- Dr. Ayanna Howard, dean of college of engineering, Ohio State University
- Parneshia Jones, director, Northwestern University Press
- Caroline Laguerre-Brown, vice provost for diversity, equity and community engagement, George Washington University
- Dr. Cynthia Lindquist, president, Cankdeska Cikana Community College
- Dr. Felicia McGinty, executive vice chancellor of administration and planning, Rutgers University
- Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton professor of law and founding director of the Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School
- Dr. Traci L. Morris, director of the American Indian Policy (AIPI) Institute, Arizona State University
- Dr. Erica Muhl, president, Berklee College of Music
- Dr. Maureen Murphy, president, College of Southern Maryland
- Madeline Pumariega, president, Miami Dade College
- Desiree Reed-Francois, athletic director, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Dr. Jeanne Craig Sinkford, dean emerita, College of Dentistry, Howard University
- Raquel Tamez, CEO, SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers)
- Nancy Jean Tubbs, director, LGBT Resource Center, University of California, Riverside
- Tara VanDerveer, head women’s basketball coach, Stanford University
- Dr. Geraldine Young, chief diversity and inclusion officer, Frontier Nursing University
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.