Foundation Targeting 3 Local Universities To Boost Women In Leadership

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State House News Service
By Chris Triunfo
November 14, 2018

Three Massachusetts universities will be the target of a campaign to increase the number of women leaders in their administration, according to Eos Foundation President Andrea Silbert.

During a speaking event Wednesday, Silbert said that donors, alumni, faculty and students from Tufts University, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst are being organized to petition their school’s administration for higher representation.

“We want to give organizers a real opportunity to weigh in,” Silbert said during a speaking event at the State House. “We’re eager to get this cluster of people on campuses going.”

The organizers will mainly use data from an Eos Foundation report in their efforts.

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