New research from the Council on Criminal Justice estimates the number of women under correctional control will increase by some 10 percent by 2035, resulting in a 34 percent increase in the costs associated with women's justice system involvement.

Dr. Dougherty came to Hudson County Community College in 2016 as dean of enrollment and was promoted to senior vice president for student affairs and enrollment three years later. In June, she was tapped to serve as the college's interim president.

Across a series of five experiments, scholars at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley found that women are consistently perceived as more trustworthy negotiators. Furthermore, this focus on relationship-building in negotiations did not lead to worse economics outcomes for women negotiators compared to their male counterparts.

An administrator at the university for the past several years, Dr. Dycus has led Eastern Mennonite University on an interim basis since July 2025.

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.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently granted tenure to five women scholars in the School of Engineering: Christina Delimitrou, Sili Deng, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Laura Lewis, and Tami Lieberman.

As a scholar, Dr. Hesse-Biber is known for her research on women's health and body image, women and work, feminist sociology, mixed method inquiry, and hereditary breast cancer. She has retired from Boston College after 50 years of service.

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

Angela Boswell was named interim dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Heather Schugar was appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Vanessa Kahen is interim dean of the College of Health Sciences.

Dr. Logan was in her 13th year of teaching as a professor of sociology at Hastings College in Nebraska at the time of her passing. She had a wide range of scholarly interests, including social justice, criminology, and women's and gender studies.

“This encyclopedia comes at a time when matters related to gender and education are increasingly fraught and urgent in the United States and globally and is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand how gender shapes educational experiences and outcomes,” said co-editor Sherry Deckman of the City University of New York.

The three women promoted to full professor at Hamilton College in New York are Kate Brown in physics, Courtney Gibbons in mathematics and statistics, and Pavitra Sundar in literature and creative writing.