Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair for Leadership Excellence Director, Butler Center

Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Distinguished Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. In 2015, she became the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair for Leadership Excellence and Director of the Butler Center.

Buzzanell’s research focuses on the intersections of career, leadership, gen-der, and resilience. Specifically, she focuses on the everyday negotiations, policies, and structures that produce and are produced by the intersections. She is the editor of three books and author of more than 160 articles and chapters. Her work has been published in journals including Human Rela-tions, Communication Monographs, and Human Communication Research as well as in handbooks on organizational, professional, family, conflict, ethics, and gender communication and proceedings in engineering education.

She also has published in the proceedings of the American Society for Engi-neering Education, Frontiers in Education, and other outlets.

Buzzanell has worked on ADVANCE-Purdue initiatives for institutional change and as a faculty team advisor for several engineering design teams the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. She also serves on the faculty advisory committee of the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue. Buzzanell has been president of the International Communication Association (ICA), Council of Communication Associations (CCA), and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG).She was named ICA Fellow in 2011. She served on the research board of the National Communication Association (NCA) and on the advisory board for the Global Media Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University. She has served as editor of Management Communication Quarterly and associate editor and editorial board member of about two dozen journals and handbooks.

At Purdue, Buzzanell has received awards for her discovery, learning, and engagement. Among these, she has received the 2014 Provost’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, the Violet Haas Award, the Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion, and the W. Charles and Ann Redding Faculty Fellowship. Buzzanell has been honored nationally and internationally with the 2014 Velux Faculty Research Fellowship from Copenhagen Business School, the NCA’s Francine Merritt Award, the ICA’s Fredric M. Jablin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Organizational Com-munication, the ICA’s Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, and OSCLG’s Teacher-Mentor Award. Current funded collaborations include development and validation of individual engineering ethical de-velopment and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through National Science Foundation (NSF) funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]

Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership

Excellence

Dr. Patrice M. Buzzanell

ABOUT USThe Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence serves as a catalyst for developing leadership for the 21st century. The Butler Center provides research support, educational seminars, workshops, and experiences that enhance both the aspiring and experienced leaders’ understanding and ability to manage today’s complex institutions, particularly colleges and universities.

In October 2004, Susan Bulkeley Butler, a former member of the Purdue‘s Board of Trustees and a 1965 alumna of the Krannert School of Management, donated $3.65 million to endow the Center for Leadership Excellence and a chair with the same name. Butler, who retired in 2002 from Accenture as the first female managing partner, serves on the Campaign for Purdue Steering Committee, the President’s Council, Women of Purdue, Krannert School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council, and Purdue Research Foundation Board of Directors. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Directors for Leadershape and Junior Achievement. In 2003, she created the Susan Bulkeley Butler Institute for the De-velopment of Women Leaders, which offers leadership training for

women. Butler, an inspirational speaker and author, published Become the CEO of You, Inc., a how-to primer on planning and developing one’s career and personal potential. In 2010, she published Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World, a book that explores what needs to happen in the next decade to bring equality to women. In August, 2011, the Purdue Women’s Resource Office (WRO) merged with the Butler Center and adopted the new name of the Women’s Resource Network (WRN). WRN provides resources and support services to the academic community. This reorganization provided the opportunity to maintain the many hallmark programs of both the Butler Center and WRN under one organizational unit, as well as offer resources to expand programming and services to new audiences in the future. Please explore the website for addition-al information about upcoming programs and events http://pususanbutler.weebly.com.

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5 Reasons to Love the Butler Center as an Undergrad

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue is a cen-ter with resources for women to advance in leadership. The center provides numer-ous opportunities to attend events, receive awards, and participate in research activities. Their ultimate goal is to create conversations across campus and higher education that advance women’s leadership. The best part about the Butler Center is that all women on campus are welcomed to attend the events.

Female undergraduate students that do not know much about the center and its

mission may not want to participate in the Butler Center’s event. At first glance, the events appears to be geared toward professors and graduate students. However, as an undergraduate woman I have attended several Butler Center events, some include the Women’s Entrepreneurship Network event and the Panel Discussion for Lessons in Leadership and Academe, and found myself welcomed and encouraged to par-ticipate in their future events.

Here are 5 reasons to love and participate in the Butler Center events as an undergraduate female.

Our History, Our Future

April 12 is National Equal Pay Day. President Obama announced the dedication of a national mon-ument to honor women’s equality at the onetime headquarters of the National Women’s Party in Wash-ington, D.C. where he remarked, “A woman has to work about this far into 2016 just to earn what a man earned in 2015.” Back in West Lafayette, Indiana, the Susan Bukeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence held an event the next day on the status of women. Titled Our History, Our Future, the event celebrated the Pur-due Council on the Status of Women. Six female professors and faculty who worked for or currently work for Purdue University shared their experiences with progressing up the faculty ranks at the uni-versity. All of them strive to improve the status of women in their lifetime. The Susan Butler Center is an integral place for them in this quest.

FEATURES

The Butler Center fosters networks among women at Purdue.

The Butler Center hosts the event Our History, Our Future to celebrate the Purdue Council on the Status of Women.

FEATURESConference for Pre-Tenure

Back by popular demand, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence hosted a screening of Donna Riley’s keynote speech held at the Conference for Pre-Tenure Women. The origi-nal conference took place at Purdue University last September and Riley’s speech was recorded for later viewing as it was received very highly by those who attended the session.

The conference was introduced in 2010, with the in-tention of helping women in higher education from Purdue and other national institutions achieve promotion and tenure in addition to developing career strategies and networks useful for moving into further promotions and into other academic areas.

Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She has previously served as Program Director for Engineering Education at the National Science Foundation and was a founding faculty member of the Pick-er Engineering Program at Smith College, which was the first engineering program at a women’s college in the United States. Riley has had a unique career, as she has worked in combining the engineering and liberal arts academic worlds to achieve broader understanding.

Donna Riley gives her keynote speech at the Conference for Pre-Tenure Women.

Dr. Buzzanell and Donna Riley answer questions at the Conference for Pre-Tenure Women.

FEATURESWomen’s Entrepreneurship Network—Uncensored (WEN-U) Fosters

Connections and Develops Entrepreneurial leadership

The Women’s Entrepreneurship Network- Uncen-sored is a group developed by the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence that gathers to discuss a range of topics pertinent to women leaders at Purdue Uni-versity.The purpose of these discussions is to help establish networks, create safe spaces, foster connections and devel-op entrepreneurial leadership. One of such discussions took place April 6, 2016 in the aesthetic Marriott building. Dr. Patrice Buzzanell, distinguished Professor in

the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the Director of the Butler Center, led a group of women, who consisted of faculty, staff and students, in the fervent dis-cussion. The conversation explored different topics, but the major point of discussion focused on the rise up the professional and academic ladder.

Women, We Mean

In December 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave her remarkable speech, Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders on Ted Talk Show, giving every female the best lesson about gender gap in workplaces. Here are some key takeaways from her speech: “Women are not making it to the top of any profession, anywhere in the world.”• Among 190 heads of state, nine are women.• Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.• In the corporate sector, women are at the top, C-level jobs, board seats, tops out at 15 or 16 percent. The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going a wrong direction.• In the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as being led by more women, 20 percent of women are at the top.

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Sheryl Sandberg at the Ted Talk Show.

Women gather for a WEN-U discussion.

QUICK LOOKS The Violet Haas Award was established in 1990 by the Council on the Status of Women (CSW), an organization that sought to provide a voice for all women at Purdue University. In 2011, CSW disbanded and passed the legacy of the Violet Haas award on to the Butler Center, so that Purdue may continue to honor those working to support women in higher education. The Susan Bukeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence held an event on April 13 (Wednesday). Titled Our History, Our Future, the event will celebrate the Purdue Council on the Sta-tus of Women.

There are many other events that the Butler Center sponsors and co-sponsors throughout the year. If you would like join our mailing list, please email us at butlercenter@purdue.edu

The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Lead-ership Excellence serves as a catalyst for developing leadership for the 21st century. The goals are designing conversations across campus and higher education that advance women’s leadership and create more inclusion-ary spaces. Here is the flyer for people to reach at, get involved in Butler Center, and voice for women’s status across campus.

The Purdue Women Lead, Wine and Canvas is a fun event for Purdue women from across campus to reconnect and join in conversation. There will be canvas painting for a limit of 40 individ-uals, however, there will also be music, wine and hors d’oeuvres by Juniper Spoon for everyone that attends the event. Do not forget to RSVP!

CONTACT US: Ernest C. Young Hall, 10th Floor155 S. Grant StreetWest Lafayette, IN 47907-2114 USA+1 (765) 494-9879E-mail: ButlerCenter@purdue.edu

MEET OUR STAFF

Patrice M. BuzzanellSusan Bulkeley Butler Chair for Leadership

Excellence Director, Butler Center

Ellen Ernst KossekResearch Director, Susan Bulkeley Butler for

Leadership Excellence

Tamara HoffmanAdministrative Assistant and Assistant to

Patrice Buzzanell

Kyunghee LeeResearch Associate and Project Manager Susan Bulkeley Butler for Leadership Ex-

cellence