Wake Forest offers support to women seeking senior leadership positions
Wake Forest University has joined North Carolina’s chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network, which helps colleges and universities achieve parity by promoting the advancement of women, providing networking opportunities and assisting those interested in advancing their careers.
Erica Still, associate dean for faculty recruitment, diversity, and inclusion and professor of English
Steph Trilling, director of the Wake Forest Women’s Center
Steph Trilling, director of Wake Forest’s Women’s Center, and Erica Still, associate dean for faculty recruitment, diversity and inclusion, are the University’s representatives for the state chapter. Moreover, Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch is a Presidential Sponsor of NC ACE Women’s Network, which means, among other things, the University has made a commitment to the organization and its goals.
“We know that our institutions and communities are collectively more innovative, creative, visionary and successful when women’s voices are part of deliberations and decision-making at all levels, including the most senior,” Hatch said. “Therefore, I am proud to sign on as a Presidential Sponsor for the NC ACE Network of Women Leaders, whose work will help assure that a robust set of professional development, networking and leadership opportunities are widely available to members.”
Trilling and Still are excited about helping women better position themselves for leadership roles.
“We have a lot of women who work in higher education, but we’re still underrepresented in senior leadership roles, especially women of color or women who have other marginalized identities,” Trilling said. “Being a member of ACE will help women at Wake Forest gain the skills and the contacts they need to move into these roles and help us as a field achieve gender parity.”
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Andrea Ellis selected for new class of ACE Fellows Program
Andrea Ellis
Andrea C. Ellis, assistant vice president of innovation, has been selected for the 2020-21 class of the ACE Fellows Program. ACE (American Council on Education) named 38 emerging college and university leaders as ACE Fellows for 2020-21.
“Since its inception in 1965, the ACE Fellows Program has strengthened institutions in American higher education by identifying sand preparing over 2,000 faculty, staff and administrators for senior positions in college and university leadership through its distinctive and intensive nominator-driven, cohort-based mentorship model,” ACE announced, recently. “Of the Fellows who have participated to date, more than 80 percent have gone on after their fellowship to serve as chief executive officers, chief academic officers, other cabinet-level positions and deans.”
ACE’s announcement described the class as representing “the diversity of America’s higher education institutions by gender, race/ethnicity, institution type and disciplinary background.” The new class contains a 2 to 1 ratio of women to men. One-third of the class’s members are from underrepresented groups.
Ellis joined the Wake Forest staff 21 years ago. In 2015, she became assistant vice president of innovation.
The entire ACE announcement is available here.
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