Breaking News
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Rachelle Karstens Appointed the Eleventh President of Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa
Aug. 8, 2018 - President Karstens came to Briar Cliff University in May 2017 as chief of staff to the university's president. When the university's president resigned two months later, Karstens was named interim president. She has now been appointed to the position on a permanent basis. -
Stanford Law School Dean Elizabeth Magill Appointed Provost at the University of Virginia
Aug. 8, 2018 - Professor Magill has led Stanford Law School for the past six years. Earlier, she spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert on administrative law and constitutional structure. She will become provost at the University of Virginia in the summer -
Karen Lawrence Appointed President of the Huntington Library in California
Aug. 8, 2018 - Karen Lawrence, who served as president of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, for 10 years, has been named president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. She is the former dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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AAUW Study Examines the Gender Gap in Nonprofit Organizations, Including Higher Education
Aug. 8, 2018 - Women have made up a majority of all college graduates in each of the past 35 years. But today women are only 44 percent of tenured faculty and 36 percent of full professors. Women are less than 30 percent of college presidents and only 32 percent of the members of -
Survey Offers Clues on the Persisting Gender Gap in Top Positions at the Nation’s Leading Law Firms
Aug. 8, 2018 - In 2016, women surpassed men in law school enrollments for the first time. But women still have a long way to go to reach equality at the top levels of the American legal profession. A new study offers some possible reasons why women tend to leave the profession before they -
Yale University Study Documents How Title IX Complaints Have Changed Over the Years
Aug. 8, 2018 - The data shows that complaints citing discrimination in academics were the most common type filed for nearly all of the last 20 years, while athletics complaints were the least commonly filed. Complaints alleging schools violated the law by mishandling sexual harassment began to rise in 2006, skyrocketing in 2009. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Three Women Named Department Chairs at the Mississippi University for Women
Aug. 10, 2018 - Brandy Larmon is the new chair of the department of associate nursing. Maria Scott was appointed chair of the department of baccalaureate nursing and Kathy Shapley was named chair of the department of speech-language pathology. -
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities
Aug. 9, 2018 - Autumn Tooms Cypres was appointed dean of the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sonya Hardin was named dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville, and Tara Bubble was appointed dean of admission at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. -
Seven Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Assignments at Colleges and Universities
Aug. 9, 2018 - 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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Four Women Scholars Selected as Finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Aug. 9, 2018 - The Frederick Douglass Book Prize recognizes the best book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition published in the preceding year. It comes with a $25,000 award. The winner of the prize will be announced this fall and be presented in a ceremony in New York City on February 28, 2019. All -
Boston University’s Ann McKee Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Her Research on CTE
Aug. 9, 2018 - Dr. McKee received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference for establishing the criteria for diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease experienced by many athletes who have had repeated hits to the head. -
Honors or Awards for a Trio of Women in Higher Education
Aug. 9, 2018 - The honorees are Winifred E. Brownell, dean emerita of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rhode Island, Pat Martin, director of off-campus study at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and Jill Marshall an assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Wesleyan College Ends the Use of Class Names That Once Had Ties to the KKK [8.15.2018]
In the early twentieth century one of every four undergraduate classes at Wesleyan College, an educational institution for women in Macon, Georgia, was designated the Ku Klux Klan class.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [8.14.2018]
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 [8.14.2018]
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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University of Tennessee Debuts Online Archive of the Works of Artist Catherine Wiley [8.13.2018]
Wiley enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1895, only a few years after women were first admitted to the institution. After studying art in New York, she returned to Knoxville to teach freehand drawing at the University of Tennessee from 1905 to 1918.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [8.13.2018]
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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In Memoriam: June Pachuta Farris, 1947-2018 [8.10.2018]
June Pachuta Farris was the bibliographer for Slavic and East European studies and general linguistics for the University of Chicago Libraries.
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Three Women Who Have Stepped Down From Top-Level Positions in Higher Education [8.10.2018]
the three women who have left their posts are Elaine Heath, dean of the Duke Divinity School, Barbara S. McCrady, director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse & Addictions at the University of New Mexico, and Katharine Fretwell, dean of admissions and financial aid at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
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Eight Women Appointed to Administrative Positions in the Academic World [8.9.2018]
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 Scholars Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Yale University [8.9.2018]
The three women scholars appointed to endowed chairs at Yale University are Ardis Butterfield in English, Grace Cao in sociology, and Donna Spiegelman in biostatistics.
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In Memoriam: Virginia Lee Maxwell George, 1924-2018 [8.8.2018]
Professor George joined the faculty at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 1964 as an instructor of maternal and child nursing. In 1975 she founded the school’s nurse practitioner graduate program and served as director for 15 years.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [8.7.2018]
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 [8.7.2018]
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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Mills College in Oakland to Offer Guaranteed Admission to Graduates of California Community Colleges [8.6.2018]
Under the agreement, students who complete an associate degree for transfer at a member of the California Community College System will be guaranteed admission to Mills College as a junior. Mills will assign a minimum of 60 credit hours to these students toward their bachelor’s degree.
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Seven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Assignments at Colleges and Universities [8.6.2018]
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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In Memoriam: Kathleen Burke, 1936-2018 [8.6.2018]
In 1972, Dr. Burke was a co-founder of a master’s degree program in counseling and art therapy at Ursuline College, which at the time was the only graduate program in the discipline in the state of Ohio.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [8.3.2018]
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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In Memoriam: Susan O’Hara, 1938 to 2018 [8.3.2018]
Susan O’Hara was a long-time leader of the disability rights movement and the former director of the Disabled Students Residence Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Three Women Scholars Who Are Leaving Their Current Posts in Higher Education [8.3.2018]
The three women who have or will leave their posts in academia are Suzanne R. Kirschner at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, Sharon P. Smith, president of the University of Pittsburgh at Greeensburg, and Beth Ingram, provost at North Dakota State University.
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Duke University’s Ingrid Daubechies to Receive the 2018 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award [8.2.2018]
Professor Daubechies will be honored this December in Shanghai for her contributions to wavelet theory. Her research has led to the refinement of a process used to shrink digital photos and videos so they take up less digital space.
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A Pair of Women Scholars Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at State Universities [8.2.2018]
Marty Brock is serving as interim dean of the College of Business and Professional Studies at the Mississippi University for Women and Tracey Morris was appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
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Elizabeth Boyer of Penn State Honored by the American Geophysical Union [8.2.2018]
Elizabeth W. Boyer, associate professor of water resources in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, will deliver the Witherspoon Lecture at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in December in Washington, D.C.
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Fifteen Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties at Colleges and Universities [8.2.2018]
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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