The Council's goal is to expand the experiences and leadership opportunities for Northwestern women students by creating an influential and dynamic network of role models and providing opportunities for career counseling, mentoring and job placement. The current membership of the council represents leading women alums who were invited by the University administration to join. They were selected from the more than 81,000 women alumnae of Northwestern University. A major task of the Council is to identify and invite other successful women alums from a variety of fields and careers. Over the years the format has changed and become more informal and provided additional opportunities for students and alumnae to connect.
Council members serve a three-year term and meet every spring and fall.
They can have an impact on the opportunities for women students who participate in an internship or mentoring program. The Council of One Hundred members give them an opportunity to get information that could be very helpful for them in the future. Last year, we had four informal summer meetings that consisted of smaller groups and held in their own home towns. Some portion of the semiannual meetings are just for Council members to interact, and to help re-acquaint them with what is going on at Northwestern, and to carry out the business functions of the Council. The major portion of the meetings include a wide variety of programming and speakers of current interest to students.