7 Female Duke Deans Share Leadership Insights

Addressing about 60 Duke students, staff and faculty during a panel discussion Monday, seven female deans at Duke discussed balancing work and life, important leadership qualities, overcoming self-doubt, and stereotypes of female and minority leaders.

Each dean also described her own path to academic leadership roles at Duke.

An estimated 40 percent of new dean appointments in higher education across the U.S. in the past two years have been women, possibly indicating a turning point in higher education leadership, said Kirsten Corazzini, an associate professor in Duke’s School of Nursing who served as a panel moderator. The event was organized by the Faculty Women's Network and Caucus at Duke.

“We gather today to honor these individual unique narratives of each of the accomplished scholars in her trajectory toward her current leadership position here at Duke University,” Corazzini told the audience gathered in Gross Hall for the panel discussion.

Click here to read insights from the deans, including Dean Marion E. Broome.

Story written by Duke Today.