Forum 2001 - The University of Houston at Victoria

Focus: Higher Education

Dr. Karen Haynes, President of the University of Houston at Victoria (UHV) has begun to include the Survey of Organizational Excellence in the strategic plan of the University. She believes that from the results and continued use of the survey, UHV can continue to improve its performance as a growing branch of the University of Houston system. This also serves as a way to validate the use of the survey in higher education institutions and to continue improving the services provided within those institutions as well.  Read more in the Executive Summary (PDF Format) for this organization.

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About the Presenter:

Karen S. Haynes 
President 
University of Houston - Victoria 

Karen Haynes has been President, University of Houston-Victoria since 1995. Previously she was Dean of the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work from 1985-1995. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin; holds an M.S.W. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and an B.A. degree from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Haynes has many publications including several books: Women Managers in Human Services (1989); Affecting Change: Social Workers in the Political Arena (4th edition, 2000); Invitation to Social Work (1994) and Women Leaders in Human Services: An Inclusive Perspective (forthcoming 2002). 

She was in the 1996 class of Leadership America; the 1990 class of Leadership Texas and is a graduate of Leadership Houston (1986). In 1998 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers, Houston chapter. She received the outstanding alumni award from the University of Texas School of Social Work in 1997. She was included in the first edition of 100 Years - Houston’s Pioneer Women and Today’s Leaders (1994) and was the recipient of the Houston YWCA’s Outstanding Woman in Education award in 1993. 

Nationally she serves on the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Task Force on Engagement and on their Committee on Policies and Purposes; she is a member of the American Council on Education’s Commission on Women in Higher Education; and serves on the Council on Social Work Education’s board. 

Locally she serves on the Victoria Chamber of Commerce board; the DeTar Hospital Board; the Victoria Symphony Advisory Board, and chairs the education committee for the Victoria Economic Development Center and the Victoria Chamber of Commerce.