Dr. Prudence Dalrymple, dean of Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, is one of only 60 female international academic faculty and administrators to be invited to attend a month-long professional seminar this summer sponsored by Higher Education Resources Services (HERS). Dr. Dalrymple, a resident of Lake View, will be receiving intensive training in educational administration with an emphasis on current issues facing academic institutions.
HERS is an independent organization established in 1972 to develop and direct programs to improve the status and career opportunities of academic professional women. Its Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration is a residential program held on the campus of Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia.
Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor's and master's degrees. Dominican offers 51 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 18 graduate programs in four graduate schools through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Graduate School of Business and Information Systems, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work. In the 2003 issue of America's Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master's level universities and as a best value for the fifth consecutive year. |
