Breaking News
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Lynn Perry Wooten Will Be the Ninth President of Simmons University in Boston
Feb. 12, 2020 - Most recently, Dr. Wooten has been serving as the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of Management and Organizations at Cornell University’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Prior to her position at Cornell, Dr. Wooten served on the faculty at the University of Michigan for nearly two decades. -
Another One Bites the Dust: Converse College to Transition to Co-Educational Undergraduate Education
Feb. 12, 2020 - The president and board of trustees cited ongoing changes in student preferences, a nationwide decrease of interest in enrollment at women’s colleges, and proactive preparation for a decline in high school graduates beginning in 2025 as prompts for a re-envisioned Converse. -
Candice Storey Lee Is the First Woman Athletic Director at Vanderbilt University in Nashville
Feb. 12, 2020 - Dr. Lee has been serving as associate vice chancellor and deputy athletic director. She has been the department’s senior woman administrator for the athletics program since 2004. Dr. Lee was a four-year varsity letter winner in basketball and holds three degrees from Vanderbilt University. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Male College Students Ask for and Receive Favorable Grade Changes More Often Than Their Women Peers
Feb. 12, 2020 - A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research reports that male college students are more likely that their woman peers to seek a grade change from their instructors. And the paper finds that men are more successful in getting their grades changed than women. -
Is the Choice of College Major a Significant Factor in the Gender Wage Gap Later in Life?
Feb. 12, 2020 - A working paper from the Becker Friedman Institute authored by researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Chicago, finds that women today still choose college majors associated with lower potential wages than men. -
Rutgers University Study Finds Stereotypic Images of Gender Roles in the Workforce Persist Online
Feb. 12, 2020 - The scholars searched the internet for online images of men and women in four professions – librarian, nurse, computer programmer, and civil engineer. They compared the search results to the gender representation of each occupation according to data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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New Assignments for Nine Women Scholars at Colleges and Universities
Feb. 13, 2020 - Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties. -
A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities
Feb. 13, 2020 - Nicoleta Bugnariu was appointed dean of the new School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Dori Borjesson will be the next dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University and Patricia J. Culligan was named dean of the College of Engineering -
Colleges and Universities That Have Appointed 10 Women to New Administrative Positions
Feb. 13, 2020 - Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Viviana Gradinaru of Caltech Earns the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Feb. 13, 2020 - Dr. Gradinaru is a professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on deep brain stimulation procedures for treating human neurodegenerative disorders. -
New Award Will Honor North American Women’s Fiction
Feb. 13, 2020 - The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which will be awarded for the first time in 2022, will only be open to Canadian and American women and non-binary individuals. The new award will include a cash prize of 150,000 Canadian dollars. Shields won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1995 and -
University of Colorado’s Kristi Anseth to Receive the For Women in Science Award for North America
Feb. 13, 2020 - The L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have announced the winners of the 22nd For Women in Science Awards, which honor five exceptional women scientists from different regions of the world. Each of the five laureates will receive 100,000 euros at a ceremony on March 12 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Betty Lentz Siegal, 1931-2020 [2.17.2020]
Betty Siegel was president emeritus of Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the first woman to serve as a campus president for an institution in the University System of Georgia.She served as president of what is now Kennesaw State University from 1981 to 2006.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [2.17.2020]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Stephens College in Missouri Is Starting a Three-Year Accelerated Nursing Degree Program [2.14.2020]
Stephens College, an educational institution for women in Columbia Missouri, has announced that it will establish a nursing program in collaboration with the Boone Hospital Center. The college hopes to enroll about 20 students in the program this fall.
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In Memoriam: Cynthia Lou Koziol, 1951-2020 [2.14.2020]
Cynthia Koziol worked at Virginia Tech for 35 years. As the only full-time academic advisor in the department of psychology, she would work at any given time with 800 undergraduate majors.
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Sarah Higgins Is the New Leader of the Birmingham, Alabama, Campus of Herzing University [2.12.2020]
Most recently, Higgins was vice president for marketing and enrollment at Western Colorado University in Gunnison. Earlier, she served as director of eternal relations and professional development at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
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In Memoriam: Steveda Chepko, 1949-2020 [2.12.2020]
Dr. Chepko was appointed assistant dean at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 2017. Earlier, Dr., Chekpo served as chair of the department of physical education, sport and human performance at Winthrop University in Rock Hill South Carolina.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [2.11.2020]
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [2.11.2020]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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Cedar Crest College to Offer a New Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Program [2.10.2020]
The new full-time program is designed for students who already hold a bachelor’s degree in a non-nursing specialty but who now want to pursue a career in nursing. The new program will be in an accelerated, 15-month format.
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Cornell Tech’s Program to Increase the Number of Women in Computer Science to Expand Nationally [2.7.2020]
The program, which will now be known as Break Through Tech, will be replicated starting in Chicago as part of a $50 million investment in the new Gender Equality in Tech Cities Initiative by Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda Gates.
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In Memoriam: Susan Margaret Claydon, 1923-2020 [2.7.2020]
At the age of 36, Sister Claydon was appointed president of Trinity Washington University in 1959. She served as president of the university until 1975. For nearly two decades afterwards, Dr. Claydon continued to teach English at the university, retiring in 2004.
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National Academy of Science Honors Kathleen Hall Jamieson With the 2020 Public Welfare Medal [2.6.2020]
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication. She has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1989.
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Six Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Duties in Higher Education [2.6.2020]
Taking on new assignments are Sandra Sharman at East Georgia State College, Jacqueline Jones LaMon at Adelphi University in New York, Sarah Laursen at Harvard University, Lisa Wood at the University of Arkansas, Kristina Olson at Princeton Univeersity in New Jersey and Lisa E. Farrington at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Rockefeller University Scholar Leslie Vosshall to Receive Prestigious Research Award [2.6.2020]
Dr. Vosshal’s research focuses on how a mosquito perceives and processes sensory information. She hopes to discover how to manipulate mosquitos’ odor-sensing mechanisms in order to prevent them from biting and spreading disease to human hosts.
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Five Universities Have Appointed Women to Dean Positions [2.6.2020]
The new deans are Rae Matsumoto at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, Desha L. Williams at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, Allison Vorderstrasse at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Heather R. Parker at Saint Leo University in Florida, and Marianne Collins at Winona State University in Minnesota.
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Suzanne L. Weekes Received Teaching Award From the Mathematical Association of America [2.6.2020]
Suzanne L. Weekes, a professor in the mathematical sciences department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, has received the prestigious Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
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Thirteen Women Who Have Been Assigned New Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities [2.6.2020]
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
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Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed University Chairs [2.6.2020]
The three women appointed to endowed professorships are Sandy McKeown at the University of South Dakota, Kathryn Edin at Princeton University in New Jersey and Brandy Faulkner at Virginia Tech.
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Condoleezza Rice Appointed Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University [2.5.2020]
Professor Rice joined Stanford University in 1981, where she served as provost from 1993 to 1999. She was national security advisor to President George W. Bush before serving as U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009.
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The Gender Pay Gap for Physicians Begins Immediately at the Start of Doctors’ Careers [2.5.2020]
The researchers found that for graduating medical residents and fellows in New York State for the years 1999–2017, the average starting compensation was $235,044 for men and $198,426 for women. Only 60 percent of the wage gap could be explained by differences in medical specialty.
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Suzanne Rivera to Be the First Woman to Lead Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota [2.5.2020]
Dr. Rivera currently serves as vice president for research and technology management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Earlier in her career, she held executive-level research posts at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of California, Irvine.
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Yale University Study Finds a Major Impact of the #MeToo Movement on Sexual Assault Reporting [2.5.2020]
The authors found that in the first three months after the movement launched on social media, there was a 7 percent increase in the number of reported sexual assaults. This increase accounted for the reporting of about 4,600 additional crimes and was spread evenly across racial and socioeconomic groups.
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Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, Names Elizabeth Paul as its Next President [2.5.2020]
Since July 2016, Dr. Elizabeth Paul has served as the 16th president of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Earlier she was the senior academic officer and a professor of psychology at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, for seven years.
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