SU to highlight its women leaders for National Women’s Month

In celebration of National Women’s Month, Silliman University (SU) will feature its women leaders whose initiatives contributed to the University’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the community.

Following the UN theme for the 2021 International Women’s Day (March 8), “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,” the leaders were selected based on the impact of their initiative or role in helping the SU community cope with the pandemic.

Dr. Betty Cernol McCann, SU president, said: “This month we want to recognize women in the University who have played a significant role in how SU was able to persevere during the outbreak of the pandemic and through all the challenges it has brought. With their empathetic and innovative leadership, they helped enable the University to respond to the community’s needs.”

McCann said women constitute the most number in SU’s educational service community and have been equal to the numerous tasks towards a desired transformative change in the University.

“In this period of the COVID-19 pandemic, women exercise vigilance and take necessary actions to overcome obstacles, as they do at home and at the workplace. As resilient individuals, women tend to take the path away from complacency and to find strategic ways to deal with difficulties. By their example, all others are encouraged to do the same,” McCann added.

SU will post about the selected women leaders, all of whom are currently in SU as an administrator, faculty, staff, or student, on its website and social media pages throughout the whole month of March.

“The academe is a place for instruction, research and outreach. These functions can be put to good use in this period of the pandemic. Silliman University promotes the role of women as drivers of health awareness and training activities, as key actors in business incubation and sound environmental practices, as generators of knowledge in aid of planning and action, to mention some,” said McCann.

(Photo and template from UN Women for the International Women’s Day 2021 celebration.)