University President John T. Casteen III has finalized the membership of the newly created Women's Leadership Council.
Joan Fry, special assistant to the president, reported that Casteen named 13 appointed members and five ex-officio members on the recommendation of the Interim Women's Leadership Council, established last year.
The Interim Council selected men and women who "demonstrated effective leadership and interest in women's roles in the University," Fry said.
Casteen created the Council last February to "identify and develop more leadership opportunities and roles and will increase professional development opportunities for women faculty, staff and students," she said.
Third-year College student Caroline Altman and Darden Doctoral Candidate Mary Hamilton are the two student members. Other appointments include distinguished faculty, administrators and staff.
Casteen could not be reached for comment.
Altman said she wants to be the undergraduate voice to the Council and function as a liaison to the student body. She said she sees this new council as charged "to help promote an environment where women can be leaders and can succeed."
Faculty Senate Chairwoman Patricia Werhane, also a council member, said although the Interim Council made many recommendations, she hopes to see "a continued focus on diversity at all levels of the University, particularly intellectual diversity."
Farzaneh Milani, Women's Studies associate professor and Council member, hopes people will "recognize that existing priorities and policies have been constructed based on a male model.
"When women's life experiences are taken into account, policies change substantially and significantly," Milani said.
The Council has not met or established a time for its first meeting, but Fry expects it to convene within the next two weeks.
Craig Barton, assistant professor of architecture, Becky Burbach, executive assistant to the dean of the Curry School of Education, Caroline Callahan, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Women's Center Director Sharon Davie also were named to the Council. Casteen also appointed Dearing Johns, associate professor of international medicine, Marcus Martin, professor of emergency medicine, Associate Athletic Director Jane Miller, Carl Trindle, director of studies at Brown College and Sharon Utz, director of the Adult Health Division.
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