KU dedicates new Women's Hall of Fame

Sebelius headlines new class

KU’s Women’s Hall of Fame recently inducted a new class and dedicated a new site on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union. Kala Stroup, former KU dean of women, directed the project. Three faculty members and two alumnae were among this year’s class, which brought the total to 17 women in the hall of fame.

Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. secretary of health and human services and former governor of Kansas, was among the class. Jacqueline Snyder, chancellor of Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Mo., and three KU professors — Maria Carlson in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan in the Department of Mathematics and Joey Sprague in the Department of Sociology — were inducted with Sebelius.

Sebelius and Snyder both earned degrees at KU. Sebelius received a master’s in public administration in 1980, and Snyder earned a doctorate in higher education administration in 1988.

Snyder became the fifth chancellor of Metropolitan Community College in 2005. In 2002, she was elected president of the Presidents and Chancellors Association of the Missouri Community College Association.

Mary Ryan, associate dean of academic affairs at the Edwards Campus, received the Outstanding Woman Staff Member award. Two faculty members were named Outstanding Woman Educators: Kelley Massoni, lecturer in sociology, and Leslie Tuttle, assistant professor of history.

Mary Klayder, University Honors Lecturer in English, received the Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett Women Mentoring Women award.