Shirley Ann Jackson, is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
The State University of New York at Oneonta, also known as SUNY Oneonta, is a public university in Oneonta, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Hartwick College is a private liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York. The institution's origin is rooted in the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick.
Margaret M. LaMontagne Spellings is an American government and non-profit executive who serves as president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center. She previously served as the eighth United States secretary of education from 2005 to 2009. After leaving the government, Spellings served as president of the University of North Carolina System, overseeing the seventeen campus system from 2016 to 2019. She then served as president and CEO of Texas 2036 from 2019 to 2023.
Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran is an educator and academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Kalamazoo College, succeeding James F. Jones. She was the first female president, as well as the first African-American president of the school. She retired at the end of the 2015–2016 academic year.
Molly Corbett Broad was an American academic administrator who was president of the American Council on Education and the University of North Carolina.
Anthony G. Collins was the 16th President of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.
David Maxwell served as the 12th president of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa from 1999 until 2015. He is the son of jazz trumpeter Jimmy Maxwell.
Rev. Edward Aloysius Malloy, C.S.C. is an American Catholic priest, academic, and former college basketball player who is a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Nicknamed “Monk Malloy”, he is best known for his service as the 16th president of the University of Notre Dame from 1987 to 2005.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) located in Washington D.C. It is an organization of private American colleges and universities. Founded in 1976, it is made up of over 1,000 independent higher education institutions.
Dr. Betsy Vogel Boze, is an American academic and higher education administrator who is currently serving as the ninth President of The College of The Bahamas. Previously, she worked as a professor of marketing, department chair, dean, and CEO of Kent State University at Stark, before serving as the president of The College of The Bahamas. She is a senior fellow at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), that researches alternative revenue streams for public colleges and universities.
The American Council on Education (ACE) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) U.S. higher education association established in 1918. ACE's members are the leaders of approximately 1,600 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education-related associations, organizations, and corporations. The organization, located in Washington, D.C., conducts public policy advocacy, research, and other initiatives related to key higher education issues and offers leadership development programs to its members and others in the higher education community.
Renu Khator is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the thirteenth president of the University of Houston. In 2008, she became the first female chancellor in the state of Texas and the first Indian immigrant to lead a comprehensive research university in the U.S.
Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer, is a British academic who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from February 2015 until December 2022. She took over from Howard Newby, having previously been Vice-Chancellor at Oxford Brookes University and Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic and Dean of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kevin J. Manning is the former president of Stevenson University, the former Villa Julie College and the third largest independent university in Maryland. He was inaugurated as the fourth president of Villa Julie College on October 28, 2000, succeeding Carolyn Manuszak. He resigned from Stevenson University on November 29, 2016.
Ann Die Hasselmo was president of Hendrix College from 1992 to 2001, and served as chair of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). She is a former president of the American Academic Leadership Institute.
Dame Sally Mapstone is a British academic who has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews since 2016.
Jenny Higham was the first woman to serve as Principal of St George's, University of London, which she took up an appointment in November 2015. St George's, University of London obtained University status in June 2022, meaning Higham's position became Vice-Chancellor. She was the first female to be elected Chair of the Medical Schools Council. Higham is also an Honorary Consultant at St. Georges NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting professor at the Imperial College London.
Barbara Jean Morris is an American academic administrator who currently serves as the 18th president of Prescott College.
Lorrie Ann Clemo is an American political scientist who is the 15th president of D'Youville University, serving since January 2017. She also sits on the Board of Directors at Kaleida Health the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York (CICU), and the Western New York Higher Education Consortium. Previously she served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the State University of New York at Oswego since 2012.
