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The first HERS Summer Institute, July 1976
Summer Institute registration, 1976
Cynthia Secor (left) with a Summer Institute participant, 1978
The first HERS Network newsletter, issued Summer, 1978
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Collection
Overview
Creator: Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)
Title: Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Collection
Inclusive Dates: 1969 - 1999
Size: 335 linear ft.
Processed By: Stacey E. Farnum,
Matthew Duffy, Cindy Rankin, Julia Ripley, and Barbara Verble, 2004
Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) was started in 1972 at
Brown University to promote women in higher education administration.
HERS originally started as a referral and placement service for
women in higher education, and it now works to provide professional
development opportunities for professional academic women.
As of 2005, HERS has three offices: HERS, Mid-America (located
at the University of Denver since 1983), HERS, New-England (at Wellesley
College since 1976), and HERS, West (at the University of Utah).
Beginning in 1976, HERS and Bryn Mawr College have co-sponsored
a four week Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration.
The Institute has had over 2,000 participants from the United States
and abroad. In 1978, HERS, New England began The Management Institute
for Women in Higher Education at Wellesley College. The Management
Institute is a series of five weekend seminars providing management
training for professional women administrators. The National Associate
of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA)/HERS Institute
for Administrative Advancement (IAA) is held for a week in June
in various locations. Recently HERS completed the HERS South Africa
Seminar, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which provided
the opportunity for 80 South African women to the learn about higher
education processes in the United States.
All of the offices in the HERS network are involved in other activities
to promote women, particularly women in higher education administration.
These include working with women on career mapping and guidance;
collaboration with other organizations, colleges and universities;
attending and presenting in conferences; publishing; and service
on various education related boards and commissions. Dr. Cynthia
Secor has been the Director of the HERS Network since 1975 and is
the founding Director of the Summer Institute and HERS, Mid-America.
Scope and Content
The HERS Collection at the University of Denver reflects the development
of a successful women’s organization. It consists of eight
series: Institutes; Conferences; Research; Colleges and Universities;
Cynthia Secor’s papers, Pre-HERS, Organizations and Foundations;
HERS Office papers; and Publications.
The collection contains papers generated by the HERS office from
the three last decades of the twentieth century, including correspondence,
memos, notes, reports, meeting minutes, published materials, ephemera,
and research materials. The materials date from the late 1960s to
the mid 1990s.
Management Institute newsletter, the New England Network,
1990
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