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HERS-SA NEWSLETTER August 2010 - click here
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HERS-SA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The HERS-SA Annual General Meeting took place on Wednesday 23 June 2010 in Cape Town.
HERS-SA is a Voluntary Association and, according to its' Constitution, is required to have "Members", that is individuals who monitor that the Association in fulfilling its goals. In attendance were four HERS-SA Management Board Members and six Members representing higher education institutions, including Firoza Patel from UNISA who travelled from Pretoria especially for the meeting.
Nasima Badsha remains as Chair or the Management Board and there was a special welcome for the new HERS-SA Director Dr Sabie Surtee attending the AGM for the first time. The other current Members of the HERS-SA Management Board were re-elected.
A very sincere vote of thanks was noted for founder HERS-SA Management Board Members, Dr Lesley Shackleton, Dr Sarah Riordan and Désirée Simonis, who have resigned during the previous year. The contribution they have made to the advancement of women in the higher education sector is immeasurable.
Members whose term of office runs until the next HERS-SA AGM in June 2011 are as follows. Joanne Uphill was not available for re-election and thanks were also extended for her contribution as a HERS-SA Member over a number of years. We are delighted to welcome Carmelita Raizenberg as a Member.
Fatima Darries
Karen Esler
Colette February
Loveness Kaunda
Charmaine Klein
Feroza Patel
Carmelita Raizenberg
Beatrice Thuynsma
Antoinette van der Merwe
Nan Warner
Denise Zinn
STOP PRESS! Subsequent to the AGM the following also agreed to serve as Members: Cora Motale, Lynn Rippenaar and Lindi Tlou. Welcome!
Although in terms of South Africa Law HERS-SA only has a limited number of official Members, it is important to remember that it is the broader participation of all the HERS-SA women in its activities that is the strength of HERS-SA.
left to right: Nasima Badsha, Chair HERS-SA; Dr Sabie Surtee, Director HERS-SA
& Dr Lesley Shackleton, previous HERS-SA Chair
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HERS-SA is delighted to welcome Dr Sabie Surtee who has been appointed the Director of HERS-SA on a part-time basis from 1 April 2010
Dr Surtee completed her Bachelor of Arts, and Honours degrees in applied psychology and industrial sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. She received her Masters degree in Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She graduated with a doctorate in Sociology from Wits University in 1998 where she became the first Black student to be awarded a PhD degree in the sociology department at Witwatersrand University.
She has gained extensive knowledge on South African labour legislation and its implementation through her employment at the Department of Labour from 1999-2003. She worked in the Research, Policy and Planning Unit at the Department of Labour’s national office in Pretoria, and then went on to serve as the regional manager of the largest Labour centre in the Western Cape.
Dr Surtee was appointed as the Employment Equity (EE) Manager at the University of Cape Town(UCT) in 2003. In this position she was responsible for building the capacity of line managers and transformation committees in the implementation of employment equity initiatives. Her responsibilities also included formulating policy and providing the University’s management with information and change management processes to facilitate the effective implementation of employment equity at UCT. She was also assigned the role of project manager for all donor funded EE programmes at UCT which were to the value of over R23million.
Dr Surtee left UCT as a permanent member of staff in April 2009, to pursue her passion to conduct research and to offer coaching services and consultancy advice in the areas of employment equity and diversity in organisations. As the lead researcher of a team, during 2009 she conducted EE research in the Western Cape for Business Unity SA (BUSA), where the EE practices of 13 organisations based in the Western Cape were reviewed and evaluated to identify barriers to EE that are being encountered by these businesses. She also works as a consultant offering services in research, employment equity and transformation interventions, workshop design and facilitation, and coaching.
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HERS-SA ACADEMY 2010
will take place from
Sunday
12 to Saturday 18 September 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT: click here
APPLICATION FORM: click here
PROGRAMME: click here
VENUE: University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa
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RESEARCH NEWS
From 9-11 April 2010, Dr. Sarah Riordan attended a research meeting in Sweden as a result of her ongoing research association with WHEM (Women in Higher Education Management). This network of women from eight countries, led by Dr. Kate White of Australia, have been collaborating and communicating via email for the past four years whilst working on a multi-country study about gender equity in higher education. Their research has produced a book, entitled, Gender, Power and Management: a cross cultural analysis of Higher Education which will be released in 2011.
Each member of the team had produced at least one draft chapter of the book prior to the meeting. The purpose of the 3-day meeting which took place in the historic university town of Uppsala, was to sit together as a group and review each chapter of the book. “It was a wonderfully intense and productive opportunity to share insights and offer suggestions for improvement for each chapter from every country. An excellent example of women working collaboratively in a supportive environment” said Riordan. The trip was sponsored by the Swedish Research Council and facilitated by WHEM member Prof Anita Gorannson who are gratefully acknowledged.
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HERS-SA congratulates LIDIA BRITO, Mozambique's former Science Minister and a past presenter at the HERS-SA ACADEMY, on her appointment as Head of the Science Policy Division at UNESCO.
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HERS-SA congratulates PROFESSOR CHERYL DE LA REY, a past presenter at the HERS-SA ACADEMY, on her appointment as the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Pretoria.
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HERS-SA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES in 2010
For further details please go to: the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT page
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LIBRARY OF THE AFRICAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (ALA) PROJECT
Dr Louise van Rhyn, Principal of Symphonia, a socially relevant consulting organisation, recently contacted HERS-SA to invite all
members to contribute to the Library of The African Leadership Project. The African Leadership Academy is an organisation with a BIG dream - the transformation of a continent. They plan to do that through educating 6000 leaders over the next 50 years. The first group of 97 students joined the Academy in September 2008. This is a handpicked group, selected from 1700 applicants from +/- 40 countries in Africa. To read more about the African Leadership Academy click here
or telephone: +27 (0)11-794-1923.
Louise is calling on people who:
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Have written books and may be will to send some of their books to the ALA.
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Have books or other reference material that they are not using and want to make available to the future leaders of Africa (NB not just any material - they need books and reference material that the future leaders of Africa would find of value as they develop their plans to transform Africa)
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Know others who have books / can get hold of books and want to support the development of a cadre of African leaders who will lead the tranformation of a continent.
Please send your books / reference material to:
Library Project, African Leadership Academy,
P O Box 529, Hurlingham, 2070, South Africa
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US: GOLDMAN SACHS OFFERS TRAINING FOR 10,000 WOMEN
The Goldman Sachs business group is to plough US$100 million over a five year period to provide for 10,000 women, mainly in developing countries, with a business and management education via partnerships between universities in the United States and Europe and business schools in emerging and developing economies. Initial academic partners include the Columbia, Harvard and Standford business schools in the United States; the American Universities of Afghanistan and Cairo; the Indian School of Business, Hyderbad; the US International University, Kenya; the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For further details go to: http://www.10000women.org or email: info@10000women.org |
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NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE:
"INSTITUTIONAL CULTURES and HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP:
WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?"
Thursday 27 and Friday 28 March 2008
Middle Campus, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The conference was a joint initiative of HERS-SA, the Department of Education, The Council on Higher Education (CHE), and Higher Education South Africa (HESA)and attracted 120 delegates including Vice Chancellors and senior executives from across South Africa and other African countries. The Conference was convened to focus on the paucity of women at senior levels in higher education. It resulted in a DECLARATION calling for a significant improvement in the representation of women in senior academiC, administrative and executive leadership positions in all higher education institutions. The Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor, received the Declaration on behalf of the Department of Education. The Declaration was also presented to HESA and CHE.
AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS:
Professor Lydia Brito, Assistant Professor, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique:
"A Southern African perspective on women leaders in higher education"
Professor Kathy Driver, Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa:
"Recruitment and retention of women staff - how attractive is the academic career path?"
Dr Theuns Eloff, Chair, Higher Education South Africa & Vice-Chancellor, North-West University, South Africa:
"The role of national and institutional policies and higher education organisations in bringing more women into higher education leadership positions"
Dorothy Garland, Deputy Secretary General (External), Association of Commonwealth Universities, United Kingdom:
"Highlighting an example of successful levers for change"
Prof Cheryl Potgieter, Professor of Psychology, University of Pretoria:
"The intersection of race and gender in the academic environment"
Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Executive Chair, Circle Capital Ventures, South Africa:
"Diversity in leadership in higher education South Africa"
Dr Lesley Shackleton, Chair, HERS-SA
"Panel discussion on best practice - examples of successful levers for change: HERS-SA"
Dr Mala Singh, Professor of International Higher Education Research & Information, Open University, United Kingdom:
"The Challenge to South African higher education - how do we facilitate the participation of more women in higher education leadership"
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CELEBRATING HERS-SA ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE OCTOBER 2002
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HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND was launched in 2006 through an initiative by Aderonke Akeredolu and Oludolape Amole from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria who were delegates at the HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006. In appreciation of the opportunity afforded to them by attending the ACADEMY, their aim was to provide funds for the ACADEMY fee for future delegates who did not have access to the necessary financial support.
Following the launch of the HERS-SA ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND, donations have been received from other HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006 and 2007 delegates and HERS-SA ACADEMY 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 presenters in their personal capacities.
We are delighted to report that there were sufficient funds to support one delegate’s fee at ACADEMY 2008.
HERS-SA would welcome contributions to the ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
Please contact Penny Franz on email: penny@chec.ac.za
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
HERS-SA ALUMS OR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
FATIMA DARRIES on her appointment from 1 March 2010 as Head, Ga Rankuwa Campus Library, Tshwane University of Technology.
REENA BUDREE on her appointment from 1 February 2010 as Senior Director, Human Resources Division, University of the Witwatersrand
GEORGIA YUAN on her appointment from 1 January 2010 in President Obama's administration as Deputy General Counsel for Higher Education, United States Department of Education, Washington, USA.
CHARMAINE KLEIN on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Facilities Manager: Facilities Services Section at Stellenbosch University
PROFESSOR AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon.
PROFESSOR AMANDA LOURENS on her appointment from 1 January 2010 as Vice-Rector Research and Planning at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University.
PROFESSOR KAREN ESLER who delivered her Inaugural Lecture "The Ecology of Academia" on 8 September 2009 at Stellenbosch University. In her address Professor Esler, from the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, tied together ecology, the study of interactions of living organisms with each other and their environment, with her vision of academia, the collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher research and education.
PROFESSOR DENISE ZINN (above) on her appointment as Dean of Education, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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