About the Gender Equity Council

The Gender Equity Council serves as a group to guide implementation of initiatives and strategies that improve representation of women in faculty, academic professional, graduate student, and leadership roles at the university. The Council also works to promote local and global gender equity issues across campus, and to assess progress toward campus goals in the area of gender. Gale Summerfield and Kathryn Anthony have agreed to co-chair this important committee.

The concept for the campuswide Gender Equity Council comes from the efforts of the Gender Equity Planning Team during 2006-07 and the work of the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women over several years. The Council combines and extends the efforts of these two important groups in its work, guiding implementation of new initiatives and strategies to address local equity and diversity issues that promote excellence in higher education at Illinois and also progress outward to engage issues that influence education and well-being of women and men throughout the world.

Committee Members

	Ollie Watts Davis (Co-chair) School of Music
	Ann Nardulli (Co-chair) Department of Molecular and Integrative Biology
	Jennifer Bernhard Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Katherine Galvin Office of the Provost
	Mona Heath Office of the Chief Information Officer
	Robin Jarrett Department of Human & Community Development
	Sarah Lubienski Curriculum and Instruction
	Menah Pratt-Clarke Office of the Chancellor
	Richard Rodriguez Department of English
	Cindy Williams College of Law
	Lori Williamson Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement
	Steven Zimmerman Department of Chemistry