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Late one evening in 1974, Emily Taylor’s phone rang at home. When she placed the receiver to her ear, she heard a familiar voice say, “Emily, how would you like to come and be my new boss?” It was Donna Shavlik calling from her desk at the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington DC. The directorship of the Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE) had unexpectedly opened, and Shavlik, the assistant director, wanted Taylor—her former boss and mentor—to apply for the job. The ACE Board of Directors established OWHE in 1973 to provide its members—presidents of the nation’s universities and colleges—with guidance on identifying women who might become college and university presidents, and with assistance in complying with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972.
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Carnegie Corporation of New York, “Women in Higher Education: It Took Vision, Perseverance and Innovative Strategies to Begin Opening the Doors of Colleges and Universities to Women,” Carnegie Results, Winter 2012; Shavlik, Interview by Author, March 4, 2014; Shavlik, Telephone Interview by Author, May 31, 2014. In the 1950s and 1960s, Carnegie funded the “Minnesota Plan” at the University of Minnesota, a continuing education effort that arose out of the National Association of Deans of Women (NADW)-ACE-Women’s Bureau coalition that manifested in the ACE Commission on the Education of Women (CEW) and its Rye Conference. For further information, see Linda Eisenmann, Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006);
and Helen S. Astin, Some Action of Her Own: The Adult Woman and Higher Education (Lexington: Lexington Books, 1976).
Jean Fox O’Barr, Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community through Women’s Studies (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 74–76; O’Barr, Telephone Interview by Author, April 14, 2014.
Lulu Haskell Holmes, A History of the Position of Dean of Women in a Selected Group of Co-Educational Colleges and Universities in the United States (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1939), 26–27, 38.
Gail Short Hanson, “Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of the Intercollegiate Association for Women Students” (PhD diss., George Washington University, 1995), 126–136, 171–172; Shavlik, Interview by Author, January 2007, Kansas City, MO.
Robert Schwartz, “How Deans of Women Became Men” The Review of Higher Education 20, 4 (Summer 1997): 419–436;
Schwartz, Deans of Men and the Shaping of Modern College Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Sartorius, K.C. (2014). From Deans to Presidents. In: Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement. Historical Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481344_8
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