2023 Sarah Goddard Power Award and Rhetaugh G. Dumas Award Ceremony

911 N University Avenue,Ann Arbor MI 48104

07 February, 2023

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Please join us for the annual Sarah Goddard Power & Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Awards Ceremony. This event celebrates the legacies of Sarah Goddard Power and Rhetaugh Dumas by recognizing current staff, scholars, and units that are carrying forward shared values through named awards. The awards, given by the Academic Women’s Caucus, will be presented from 3:00-5:30 p.m. on February 7 in the Koessler Room of the Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave. Named after the late University of Michigan Regent Sarah Goddard Power, this award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the betterment of women through their leadership, scholarship, or other ways in their professional life. The awards ceremony will conclude with a 30-minute carillon concert from 5-5:30 p.m., performed by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra who will premiere her original work, “Empower,” in honor of Sarah Goddard Power. Named after late Vice Provost Rhetaugh Dumas, this award recognizes outstanding institutional initiative in demonstrating notable progress by academic units in achieving ethnic, racial, and gender diversity among those pursuing and achieving tenure as professors, clinical professors, research professors, and research scientists. The Sarah Goddard Power & Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying awards are presented on behalf of the Academic Women’s Caucus, which was founded in 1975 with the charge ”to develop an inclusive organization of all women faculty members of the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses of the University of Michigan which will serve as a forum for the exchange of information about the status of faculty women at the University and as a focus for action necessary to the investigation and resolution of their special concerns.”