Awards

IUAA Volunteer Leadership Award - 2023

School of Education Distinguished Alumni Award - 2023

Bicentennial Medal - 2019

About Dawn Michele Whitehead

Dr. Dawn Michele Whitehead is the Vice President of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Her work focuses on advancing practices and strategies to integrate global, civic, and experiential learning across curricular and co-curricular initiatives and practices that advance equitable participation in global and community-based learning for all for work, life, and citizenship. She serves as the program director of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting, drawing on the broader work of AAC&U members and contemporary issues in higher education to create a compelling and timely meeting. She is also the director of two AAC&U summer institutes.

Dr. Whitehead has presented and published nationally and internationally, and she was named an inaugural member of the Institute for International Education’s National Academy for International Education.

Whitehead has also served as the vice-chair of the board of directors for The Forum on Education Abroad, the chair and vice-chair of the Indiana University Alumni Association (IUAA) Board of Managers, on the IUAA Executive Council, and on the Neal-Marshall Alumni Club. Whitehead also served as Director of Curriculum Internationalization and was the faculty director for community engaged global learning programs in Ghana, Kenya, and Costa Rica at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis and was a social studies teacher at Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. She holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies with concentrations in African Studies and International and Comparative Education.