Celebrating the Women Leaders Who Do the Behind-the-Scenes Work in Higher Education
APL nextED is proud to be a woman-founded and led higher education company. During Women’s History Month 2021 four women who are doing extraordinary work in academic operations at their institutions were honored with APL’s inaugural Outstanding Women Leading In Academic Operations Award. All of these women are leading, managing and innovating in masterful and thoughtful ways to ensure that the broad and robust infrastructure that is needed to support faculty and students is strong and sustainable.
APL’s award was created to recognize the hundreds of thousands of women doing the vital, yet often overlooked, work of leading and supporting academic teams as they work to achieve their academic missions. In addition to the award, this year’s recipients received gift boxes with products made by women-owned companies and were recognized in virtual presentations.
You can learn more about the award-winners below and hear them share the valuable lessons learned this past year, their approaches to the transitions occurring in higher education, and how they believe that being a woman has uniquely prepared them to lead in this time.
Hear from these remarkable women:
Morgan Johnson, Vice President of Faculty Affairs at University of Arizona Global
Anne Lansberry, Director of Assessment at Baker College
Patti Pelletier, Senior Director of the Learning and Leadership Community at Purdue University Global
Mangala Subramaniam, Chair & Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University
About APL nextED
APL nextED is the leading Academic Operations Platform that centralizes workflows and data in one hub, bringing faculty, staff and administrators together to connect and collaborate. Founded by a former college Dean, the SaaS platform was built to support institutions in achieving their academic mission.
