Dr. Barbara Holland

Professor Barbara A. Holland joined the University of Western Sydney as Pro Vice-Chancellor Engagement in June 2007.  In this role she serves as the senior executive for engagement and is implementing the University’s strategic plan for engagement as well as a developing a system to monitor and assess engagement's impacts on faculty, students, and communities.

She is on leave from her positions as Director of the U.S. Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse and as a Senior Scholar at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Previous administrative roles include executive positions at Portland State University, Northern Kentucky University and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A frequent consultant, author, and speaker, she is well-known for her expertise in the areas of organizational change in higher education with a specific emphasis on the implementation and assessment of community-based learning, engaged scholarship, and community-campus partnerships. In 2006 she received the Research Achievement Award from the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement.

She has been Editor of Metropolitan Universities journal since 1998. She earned her Bachelor and Masters of Journalism from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Maryland.

Dr. Judith Ramaley
President and Professor of Biology
Winona State University

Dr. Judith A. Ramaley (pronounced Rah may’ lee) is currently president of Winona State University, having previously served as president of The Universities of Vermont and Portland State, and as Assistant Director (Education and Human Resources) at The National Science Foundation. 
Dr. Ramaley has a special interest in higher-education reform and has played a significant role in designing regional alliances to promote educational cooperation.  She also has contributed to national discussions about the changing nature of work and the workforce. She also plays a national role in the exploration of civic responsibility and the role of higher education in promoting good citizenship and has published extensively on educational reform, science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and the leadership of organizational change.

She was chair of the Greater Expectations Panel, a group developed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), as a multi-year initiative to define the aims of a 21st century undergraduate education and to identify strategies for accomplishing these aims. She also served as a member of the board of the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE). She is the author of 35 papers and book chapters on issues in higher education, including civic responsibility, higher education and the public good, science and mathematics education and organizational change.

Dr. Ramaley received her bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in 1963 and conducted her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned a doctorate in 1966.  Dr. Ramaley has two sons, a daughter-in-law, and six grandchildren.