Conference Session

Attaining Academic Leadership Positions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Chris S. Anderson, Michigan Technological University; Dianne Dorland, Rowan University; Sarah A. Rajala, Mississippi State University; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

was elected by the ASEE membership.MR: Shortly after being awarded tenure, I was invited to the NSF-supported meeting in fall 2000that initiated the formation of WELI. At that meeting, I realized that moving into academicleadership was an option I should be open to and that change in my mindset led to a number ofchoices in the years that followed that brought me to my current position.By spring of 2002, I was nominated by the members of my department to serve as DepartmentHead and I served in that role until spring 2006. During that time, I attended a department chairtraining workshop run by the American Council on Education as well as a number of ASCEmeetings for department chairs. I also was elected to service on the faculty committee