Three Arkansas Tech University representatives were among the award winners at the 2026 Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education Conference, which took place on Thursday, March 12, at Harding University in Searcy.
Dr. Aubrey Holt, ATU visiting lecturer of organizational and leadership studies, received the ACWHE Leadership Excellence Award and the ACWHE Significant Scholarship Award.
Dr. Dana Tribble, ATU assistant professor of student affairs administration, earned the ACWHE Significant Scholarship Award.
Krystal Shipp, ATU visiting instructor of curriculum and instruction and director of spirit squads, received the ACWHE Stand-Out Staff Award.
Eighty-eight attendees from universities and colleges around Arkansas attended the 2026 ACWHE Conference.
ATU representatives Dr. Pam Dixon, Lydia Rogers, Lilly Rogers, Holt, Tribble and Shipp provided presentations at the conference, which featured 12 sessions across four breakout blocks. Presentation topics included leadership development, well-being, teaching strategies and emerging technologies in higher education.
Holt (president), Tribble (first vice president and conference committee chair), Shipp (membership coordinator), Dr. Jeanine Myers (treasurer) and Lynnlee Mitchell (graduate student representative) represented ATU as ACWHE executive board members during 2025-26.
Holt (past president), Tribble (first vice president and conference committee chair), Myers (treasurer) and Shipp (central region representative) will continue in their ACWHE board service during 2026-27, and they will be joined by ATU colleague Susan West in the role of secretary.
ATU was represented on the committee that planned the 2026 ACWHE Conference by Tribble, West, Samantha Huggins and Sheila Gamero.
Learn more about the Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education at https://acwhe.org.
