CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

The mission of the Office of Women in Higher Education and the ACE Network is to identify, develop, advance, and support women in higher education at the national, state, and local levels. The goals of both The Network (national) and the Virginia Network are to promote women's leadership in higher education and throughout society as a whole; to create an educational, social, and political climate in which women, in all their diversity, can participate equally with men in setting public agendas; to facilitate connections among women in various sectors of higher education and with other organizations and networks with shared goals on the institutional, state, regional, professional, national, and international levels; and to foster strategic alliances and facilitate effective partnerships between women and men in the workplace.

The major activities of the Virginia Network are coordinated by a statewide Executive Board, which is chaired by a Statewide Coordinator. Typically Virginia Network activities include:

• an annual statewide meeting of Institutional Representatives (IRs);
• regional and statewide conferences for a broad spectrum of women administrators;
• a professional development program for selected senior administrators (the Senior Seminar) a website (http://ace.prov.vt.edu) and related listservs, a periodic newsletter.

The organization also depends on the involvement and initiative of Institutional Representatives of about 70 colleges and universities throughout the state.

If you would like to receive scholarship support in order to attend, please contact: Ellen Plummer at Virginia Tech (eplummer@vt.edu) no later than May 10. (See registration page for Ellen's full contact information.)

More Information

Regenia Hill Regional Director Old Dominion University 804-662-7056 Email: rhill@odu.edu

Elsie Weatherington Dean of University Libraries Virginia State University 804-524-5040 Email: estephens@vsu.edu

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