Women’s Leadership in Science, Technology and Business: How it Develops and Why It Matters
VIEW EVENT DETAILSLight Lunch Presentation by Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College
Light Lunch Reception 12:30pm,
Presentation 1:00pm,
Close 2:00pm
The evidence is clear - communities, businesses, boards, governments and economies thrive when women hold leadership and decision-making roles. Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, the largest undergraduate women's college in the United States and the only US women's college with an engineering program, will discuss the role of education - specifically liberal arts education - in preparing the next generation of women global leaders for the 21st century.
Kathleen McCartney is the 11th President of Smith College, the largest women’s college in the United States. Since assuming the Smith presidency in 2013, she has launched important initiatives on college access and affordability, campus discourse, design thinking and the liberal arts, women in STEM, women in business, and the capacities students need to succeed and lead. Before joining Smith College, she was Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A developmental psychologist, President McCartney is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, she earned master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale University.
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