Breaking News
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The First Woman to Lead George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
Jul. 10, 2019 - Anne Holton served as Virginia Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2016. She has been a visiting professor in both the Schar School of Policy and Government and the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University since May 2017. Holton is the wife and the daughter of former governors of Virginia. -
Wanda Brown Takes Over as President of the American Library Association
Jul. 10, 2019 - Wanda Brown, the director of library services at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, is the new president of the American Library Association. Founded in 1853, the ALA is the largest library association in the world with more than 57,000 members. -
Leslie Ward Appointed to Lead the Vermont College of Fine Arts
Jul. 10, 2019 - President Ward has had an extensive career in management consulting and strategic planning. She holds a master of fine arts degree in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MBA from Harvard University. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Most Academic Conferences in Biology Do Not Have Codes of Conduct Governing Sexual Harassment
Jul. 10, 2019 - In examining nearly 200 conferences in the United States and Canada, researchers found that less than one quarter had developed a code of conduct for attendees. Of those conferences that did have a code of conduct, slightly more than half mentioned sexual harassment or sexual misconduct. -
For the First Time, Women Now Make Up a Majority of the College-Educated U.S. Workforce
Jul. 10, 2019 - Each year since the 1981-82 academic year, women have earned more bachelor's degrees than men. By 2007, the number of women with a college degree surpassed the number of men with a college degree for the first time. In 2019, women now make up a majority of all workers who -
Women May Be Better Leaders Then Men in Crises Where Outcomes Are Predictable
Jul. 10, 2019 - A study led by a professor of management at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, finds that women with stong interpersonal skills are better leaders in crises where there is a clear path to solve the problem. But workers may be more trusting of men when the path to a solution - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Two Women Scholars Named to Provost Positions at State Universities
Jul. 12, 2019 - Melody Tankersley has been named interim senior vice president and provost at Kent State University in Ohio and Angela Peters was appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Albany State University in Georgia. -
Five Women Faculty Members Appointed to Endowed Professorships at Williams College in Massachusetts
Jul. 12, 2019 - The five women scholars appointed to endowed chairs at Williams College are Elizabeth McGowan in art, Joy James in the humanities, Helga Druxes in social studies, Laylah Ali in art, and Soledad Fox in Spanish and comparative literature. -
Ten Women Scholars Appointed to New Academic Posts in Higher Education
Jul. 12, 2019 - 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. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Colby College Historian Elizabeth D. Leonard Wins Book Award
Jul. 11, 2019 - Elizabeth D. Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has been selected to receive the Thomas D. Clark Medallion from the Thomas D. Clark Foundation. She is being honored for her book on slavery in Kentucky. -
Cynthia Owsley Honored for Her 30-Year Career in Vision Impairment Research
Jul. 11, 2019 - Cynthia Owsley, who holds the Nathan E. Miles Chair of Ophthalmology and is the director of the Clinical Research Unit of the department of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is being recognized by the nonprofit organization Prevent Blindness. -
University of Wyoming Scholar Honored by the Geological Society of America
Jul. 11, 2019 - Dr. Lau joined the faculty at the University of Wyoming in 2018. She specializes in biogeochemistry, and her research focuses on investigating the causes of environmental changes in Earth’s history. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Carol Wolfe Konek, 1934-2019 [7.15.2019]
Dr. Konek was associate dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University in Kansas for 19 years. She served on the faculty of the English department and the women’s studies department for 35 years until her retirement in 2005.
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National Institutes of Health Director Will Refuse to Serve on All-Male Academic Panels [7.15.2019]
While there has been much talk about how to expand the participation of women speakers at academic conferences, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health is actually doing something about it. Recently Dr. Collins announced that he would no longer participate on academic panels where women were not represented.
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In Memoriam: Marie Borroff, 1923-2019 [7.12.2019]
In 1959, Dr. Borroff became the first woman appointed to Yale’s department of English. In 1965, she was named a full professor of English, making her one of the first two women granted tenure in any department of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Eight Women Who Have Been Selected for Dean Positions in Higher Education [7.11.2019]
The new deans are Lisa D. Ordonez at UC-San Diego, Kristina Odejimi at Bowdoin College, Kathryn Lively at Dartmouth College, Sandra Brown at Southern University, Marianne Lewis at the University of Cincinnati, Laurie Grubbs at Florida State, Joy Williamson-Lott at the University of Washington, and Stephanie J. Rowley at Teachers College of Columbia University.
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Eleven Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Administrative Positions at Colleges and Universities [7.11.2019]
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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A Large Group of Women Faculty Receive Promotions and Tenure at Texas Woman’s University [7.11.2019]
Nasrin Mirsaleh-Kohan has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on surface-enhanced raman scattering, the interaction of anticancer drugs with DNA, radiation damage to DNA, and spectroscopy techniques. Dr. Mirsaleh-Kohan is a graduate of the University of Tehran in Iran […]
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President Emerita Nancy Oliver Gray Returns to Lead Hollins University as Interim President [7.10.2019]
Gray served as the 11th president of Hollins University for 12 years before her retirement in 2017. Now she will return after her successor, Pareena Lawrence, announced that she was stepping down after only two years “to pursue her long-standing interest in international education and development.”
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In Memoriam: Joan Callahan, 1946-2019 [7.10.2019]
In 1986, Dr. Callahan joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky, where she taught philosophy for the remainder of career. There she was director of what is now the Gender and Women’s Studies Program from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2003 to 2007. She retired in 2011.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [7.9.2019]
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 [7.9.2019]
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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Four Women Retire From High-Level University Posts [7.8.2019]
Pareena Lawrence, president of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, Lynn Verschoor, director of the art museum at South Dakota State University, Mary J. Kennett, director of the Animal Resource Program at Pennsylvania State University, and Sandra Witte, a dean at California State University, Fresno, have all announced they are leaving their posts.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [7.8.2019]
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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Alice Ogden Bellis Wins “Book of the Year” From the Association of Catholic Publishers [7.5.2019]
Dr. Bellis currently serves as a professor of Hebrew Bible in the School of Divinity at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Howard faculty, she served first as an assistant, then associate, and twice acting head of staff at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education [7.5.2019]
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.
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Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology [7.5.2019]
Dr. Adkins-Regan joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of psychology and of neurobiology and behavior in 1975. She retired and was conferred the title of professor emerita in 2018. As a researcher, Dr. Adkins-Regan focuses on the neuroendocrine basis of social behavior.
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Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Colleges and Universities [7.5.2019]
The new deans are Marjorie Jenkins at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, Allyson L. Watson at Florida A&M University, Stephanie G. Adams at the University of Texas at Dallas and Alicia Golston at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A Trio of Women Academics Who Have Been Selected for Notable Honors [7.5.2019]
The honorees are Mary Alice Bruce, who recently retired from the University of Wyoming, Michelle Oswald Beiler at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Jingjing Li, at Pennsylvania State University.
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Colleges and Universities Across the Nation Announce the Appointment of Women to Administrative Posts [7.5.2019]
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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Leadership Change on the Horizon at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis [7.5.2019]
The board of trustees of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, has chosen not to renew the contract of President Andrea Miller. Dr. Miller was appointed the 12th president of the historically Black college in 2015. She is the first woman president in the college’s history.
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Nine Women Faculty Receive Promotions and Tenure at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota [7.5.2019]
St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, enrolls about 3,200 women in undergraduate programs and more than 1,500 students in its co-educational graduate programs.
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Suzanne Walsh Will Be the Next President of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina [7.3.2019]
Currently, Walsh serves as the founder and manager of Discerning SEWlutions, a consulting firm in Seattle. Earlier in her career she held various leadership roles with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the Heinz Endowments, and Cuyahoga Community College.
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New Report Examines the Gender Makeup of Private Schools in the United States [7.3.2019]
Overall boys accounted for 51.4 percent of all private school students in the 2017-18 academic year. Only 2 percent of private school students attended all-girl schools and 2.4 percent attended all-boy schools. Girls were 55 percent of the students in early childhood education or pre-schools.
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Susan Cates Named Chief Executive Officer of the Association of College and University Educators [7.3.2019]
Most recently Cates served as a strategic advisor to both public and private universities and systems, in addition to educational companies. Earlier in her career she served as president of executive development at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
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