Sarah Goddard Power & Carol Hollenshead Inspire Awards

Please join us for the 2025 Sarah Goddard Power Award Ceremony. This annual award ceremony presented on behalf of the Academic Women’s Caucus and administered by CEW+ celebrates the legacy of Sarah Goddard Power by recognizing current staff and scholars who are carrying forward shared values through named awards.
This year’s event will also include award recipients for the CEW+ Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change, whose sustained efforts have resulted in greater equity with regard to gender, race, class, age, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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The Sarah Goddard Power Award is 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.”

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 Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change was created in honor of former director Carol Hollenshead’s twenty-year tenure at the Center for the Education of Women and honors awardees who, like Carol, have proven that social change is possible through persistent hard work and who demonstrate that one person can make a lasting difference in their communities.

Presented by the Academic Women’s Caucus and administered by CEW+:

SARAH GODDARD POWER AWARD

• Laura Balzano, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Presented and awarded by CEW+:

CAROL HOLLENSHEAD INSPIRE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PROMOTING EQUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

• Margo Schlanger, J.D., Wade H and Dores M McCree Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of Law, Law School

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Michigan League, 911 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, United States