Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Lester Monts has appointed a 12-member search advisory committee to help identify candidates for the director of the Center for the Education of Women (CEW).
The center offers services to students, faculty, staff and community members. It focuses on women’s education, employment, careers, leadership growth and development, and well-being.
Cleo Caldwell, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health and faculty associate for the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research, serves as committee chair.
The committee will find a replacement for Carol Hollenshead, who will retire June 30 after 20 years as director. During those years, CEW has seen its scholarship program, counseling and research dramatically grow. The National Council for Research on Women awarded CEW with the Member Center Award in 2005 for the significant impact of its research and policy.
The committee members are:
• Lisa Baker, former associate vice president for communications and member of CEW’s Leadership Council;
• Joyce French, Women of Color Task Force member, research assistant;
• Caroline Gaither, associate professor of pharmacy, member of Women of Color in the Academy Project;
• Beth Halloran, executive director, U-M Leadership and Program Development, CEW director of development;
• Simone Himbault-Taylor, associate vice president of student affairs, director of Career Planning and Placement and adjunct assistant professor of education;
• Wayne Jones, professor of engineering and associate director of ADVANCE;
• John Matlock, associate vice provost and director of the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives;
• Jennie McAlpine, director of Work/Life Resources;
• Michele Swanson, associate professor of microbiology and immunology;
• Marina Whitman, professor of business administration and public policy and member of the CEW Membership Council; and
• Gretchen Weir, assistant vice provost, search committee staff.
Applicants should submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the search firm Greenwood/Asher Associates Inc., 42 Business Center Drive, Suite 206, Miramar Beach, Fla., 32550. Electronic submissions may be sent to
[email protected]. Nominations also are welcome.
