South Carolina Women in Higher Education



|South Carolina Women in Higher Education |

September 2010

Dear College / University President / Chancellor / Dean:

South Carolina Women in Higher Education (SCWHE) invites you to nominate a qualified woman for the 2011 Martha Kime Piper Award. The award, named for the first woman president of a public higher education institution in the state, is given annually to recognize a woman with a record of advancing and supporting women in higher education and the education of women in South Carolina.

A committee of the Executive Board of South Carolina Women in Higher Education selects the Piper Award winner from among the nominees. The following criteria with percentage weights should be used in considering a nominee for the award.

1) The recipient must have a record of participation in and support for the activities of South Carolina Women in Higher Education (SCWHE). (35%)

2) The recipient must hold or have held a position in higher education in a South Carolina institution of higher education. (25%)

3) The recipient must have a record of advancing and supporting women in higher education and the education of women throughout the state of South Carolina. (20%)

4) The recipient must have achieved professional recognition for outstanding leadership and contributions to her institution or state. (20%)

Nominations should include:

a) A one-page letter of nomination describing how the nominee has fulfilled the criteria for selection with special emphasis on the nominee’s involvement in the S.C. Women in Higher Education

b) A current curriculum vitae

c) Two (2) letters of support.

Current members of the Executive Board of South Carolina Women in Higher Education are not eligible for nomination, nor may they make nominations. Former winners have included faculty members, administrators and presidents from a number of South Carolina institutions:

Dr. Elizabeth Bell (USC Aiken), Dr. Joan Altekruse and Dr. Sue Rosser (both formerly of USC Columbia), Dr. Sally Hare and Dr. Sally Horner (both formerly of Coastal Carolina University), Dr. Mary Thornley (Trident Technical College), Dr. Ellen Wood Hall (formerly of Converse College), Dr. Sue Sommer-Kresse (formerly of College of Charleston), Dr. Anne McNutt (Technical College of the Lowcountry), Dr. Kathleen Noble (formerly of Aiken Technical College), Dr. Judith Prince (USC Upstate), Dr. Carolyn West and Dr. Kay McFarland (both of USC Columbia), Dr. Joann Boyd-Scotland (Denmark Technical College), Dr. Deidre Martin (USC Aiken), Dr. Susan Graham (Aiken Technical College), Dr. Dori Helms (Clemson University), Dr. Nancy T. Welch (Greenville Technical College), Dr. Caroline Whitson (Columbia College),  Dr. Donna L. Richter, (USC Arnold School of Public Health), Dr. Jane Upshaw (USC Beaufort), and Dr. Ann Bowles (Spartanburg Methodist College).

The deadline for nominations is Monday, December 6, 2010. The award will be presented at the SCWHE annual conference on Friday, February 25, 2011 in Myrtle Beach, SC. Nomination packets should be emailed to the Chair of the Selection Committee for the Piper Award, Charmaine Tomczyk, charmain@coastal.edu by midnight of the deadline date, December 6, 2010. For your convenience, a nominating form is noted below. If you have questions about the nomination process, please contact Charmaine Tomczyk at 843-349-2403.

Sincerely,

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Mary H. Holloway, Ph.D., LPC, NCC

Assistant Vice President, Student Development Services

Midlands Technical College and

President, South Carolina Women in Higher Education

Mary Holloway, Ph.D., President, Executive Board, South Carolina Women in Higher Education

Midlands Technical College ·P.O. Box 2408 · Columbia, South Carolina 29202

Office: 803-822-3529 Fax: 803-822-3676

South Carolina Women in Higher Education is the state network of the

American Council on Education’s National Network for Women Leaders.

Nomination Form

2011 Martha Kime Piper Award

Awarded by South Carolina Women in Higher Education

Nominee

Name: _________________________________________________

Title: _________________________________________________

Institution: _________________________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________

Telephone: _________________________________________________

Email: _________________________________________________

Nominator

Name: _________________________________________________

Title: _________________________________________________

Institution: _________________________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________

Telephone: _________________________________________________

Email: _________________________________________________

Please attach:

1. One-page letter of nomination describing how nominee has fulfilled all criteria, with special emphasis on the nominee’s involvement in the S.C. Women in Higher Education

2. Current curriculum vitae

3. Two letters of support

Deadline for nominations is Monday, December 6, 2010. Complete nomination packets must be

postmarked or emailed by midnight on the due date.

Send nominations to:

Charmaine Tomczyk, Chair, Piper Award Selection Committee

Director for Undergraduate Research

Sands Hall Room 111

Coastal Carolina University

P.O. Box 261954

Conway, South Carolina 29528

Phone: (843) 349-2403; Fax: (843) 349-2616

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