Distinguished Alumni Award

Indeed, that experience gave her the courage to land a position early in her career at ACS International in Cobham, Surrey, in England where she lived with the boarding school students on campus. Fischer taught at North Central High School, Lafayette Jefferson High School, Lawrence Central High School, and Park Tudor Schools.

Fischer has always prioritized attending to her students’ mental health long before it was explicitly recognized in the field as a best practice; she wanted her students to feel seen and safe in her classroom while pushing them to reach their greatest potentials as writers and critical thinkers. She completed a two-year term as the president of the Indiana University School of Education Alumni Board and has been a frequent speaker at the Global Gateway for Teachers Spring Workshop.

Fischer was an instructor with the Global Online Academy, an international consortium of leading schools the world over; she instructed students in a creative nonfiction course with pupils from Somalia, Kenya, Hong Kong, Mexico, and the United States. Several years ago, she launched a side gig as the College Application Whisperer. Most recently, she conducted a workshop this past June for Macedonian teachers about how to guide their students through the American college application process.

In Tucson, Fischer is co-chair of the high school scholarship committee in her neighborhood, awarding over $50,000 in scholarships to young women in the community. She received her B.S. in Education and M.A. from the IU School of Education.

He helped found the school’s precursor, the Center on Philanthropy, and was its executive director for 11 years, transforming it into a leading national resource. Generous donors recently established the Eugene R. Tempel Endowed Deanship at the school to honor Tempel. It will enable future deans to continue the development of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy to reach its full potential and to achieve its goal of improving philanthropy to improve the world.

A member of several nonprofit boards, Tempel is a past chair of the National Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Ethics Committee. An early leader in creating the field of philanthropic studies, he was the first elected president of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council and a member of Independent Sector’s Expert Advisory Panel that helped create national guidelines for nonprofit governance and ethical behavior.

The author of several works in the field, he has won numerous awards and has been named among the 50 most influential nonprofit sector leaders 13 times by The NonProfit Times, which also named him the sector’s first “Influencer of the Year '' in 2013. He earned his Ed.D. from the IU School of Education and is a Certified Fundraising Executive.

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 AAC&U’s Institute on Integrative Learning and Signature Work and co-director of the Institute on Teaching and Learning for Campus-Wide Interfaith Excellence in collaboration with Interfaith Youth Core.

Whitehead has published several articles and book chapters on these topics, such as Teaching Civic Engagement Globally, "Cultivating a Global Civic Mindset," “Expanding the Perceptions and Realities of Global Learning: Connecting Disciplines through Integrative Global Learning and Assessment,” and “Reflections on Title VI from a National Perspective.” She has presented and published nationally and internationally and was named an inaugural member of the Institute for International Education’s National Academy for International Education. Whitehead is also vice-chair of the board of directors for The Forum on Education Abroad and vice-chair of the Indiana University Alumni Association Board of Managers. 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. She was also a social studies teacher at Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Whitehead holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies with concentrations in African Studies and International and Comparative Education from the IU School of Education.