Eligible applicants include those faculty, staff, post-doctorates, research fellows, and students who will be enrolled or employed at any U-M campus during the 2024-25 academic year, and whose sustained efforts have resulted in greater equity in regard to gender, race, class, age, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation at Michigan or beyond. This award is in honor of former director Carol Hollenshead’s 20-year tenure at the Center for the Education of Women+, and comes with an award of $1,000 for individuals and $2,000 for groups. Honorees are those 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.

Sarah Goddard Power was a major contributor to the advancement of higher education, an advocate for affirmative action and human rights, and a champion of freedom for the international press. A U-M Regent for more than 12 years, she worked to advance the position of women and minorities in faculty and administrative roles. The Sarah Goddard Power Award recognizes those who have made significant achievements in contributing to the betterment of current challenges faced by women through distinguished leadership, scholarship, or other activities related to their professional lives.

Rhetaugh G. Dumas was an esteemed leader with vision, insight, and wise counsel who had a major impact on the advancement of nursing, healthcare, and academic programs at U-M. Vice Provost Emerita Dumas was the first African-American woman to hold the position of Dean at the University of Michigan when she was appointed in 1981. She remained Dean of Nursing until 1994 when she was named the inaugural Vice Provost for Health Affairs and the Lucille Cole Professor of Nursing. The Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award recognizes a U-M academic unit’s progress in establishing and maintaining concurrent ethnic/racial and gender diversity at the full professor and associate professor ranks, both tenured and non-tenured, and concurrent ethnic/racial and gender diversifying in junior ranks.