Campus Women Lead

Guiding Principles 

Mission Statement

CWL seeks to mobilize women’s leadership to implement a multicultural women-led agenda. This agenda promotes inclusive excellence and the sustained transformation of higher education, both essential frameworks as the academy endeavors to meet the educational and societal demands of the twenty-first century.

Core CWL Values

• The capacity of each woman to exercise leadership in and from whatever position she holds
• The necessity of multicultural alliances across multiple identities, communities, and sectors of our institutions
• The transformational power of women acting individually, collectively, and strategically to strengthen and sustain inclusive institutions that expect and cultivate the best from everyone

CWL’s Working Assumptions

• Individuals are part of larger complex systems and need to develop capacities to analyze systems as well as their roles in those systems.
• Diverse leaders skilled at understanding inclusiveness are a necessary element in effective institutional and personal transformation.
• Leaders survive and thrive when they can draw upon their own multiple cultural resources.
• All leaders need to be adept cultural translators and boundary crossers with strong intercultural capacities.
• Higher education needs women’s inclusive leadership to create the vibrant institutions called for in a diverse but unequal world.
• Self-creating, self-sustaining systems and leaders require time for random joy, attentive self-care, and spiritual nourishment.