NWP Board of Directors

Caryn McTighe Musil

Board Member since 2009; Member of Finance & Audit Committee

Senior Vice President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC

As Senior Vice President at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Caryn McTighe Musil oversees the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives. Under her leadership, the office has been working to mobilize powerful and overlapping educational reform movements involving civic engagement, diversity, global learning, women's issues, and personal and social responsibility. Musil has acted as the project director for more than a dozen national projects involving several hundred colleges and universities over the years.

Musil has written and edited a number of publications, including A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education (2009), Assessing Global Learning: Matching Good Intentions with Good Practice (2006), Assessing Campus Diversity Initiatives: A Guide for Campus Practitioners (2002), "Educating for Citizenship" (2003), To Form a More Perfect Union: Campus Diversity Initiatives (1999; editor), and Gender, Science and the Undergraduate Curriculum (2001; editor).

Musil has been an educational consultant and outside evaluator at numerous colleges and universities and has served as a reviewer and outside evaluator for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation. A frequent keynote speaker and presenter at various national conferences, Musil has been writing, teaching, and speaking on women, gender, and diversity throughout her career.

Musil received her BA from Duke University and her MA and PhD in English from Northwestern University. Before moving into national-level administrative work in higher education, she was a faculty member for eighteen years. In 1986, she was named a Pennsylvania "Woman of Distinction" by the Women's Campaign Fund and named in Who's Who of American Women in 1995. In 2005, she received the Donna Shavlik Award for Sustained and Continuing Commitment to Women's Advancement in Higher Education from the American Council on Education.