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.

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

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

Hollins University, the liberal arts educational institution for women in Roanoke, Virginia, has announced the addition of several new faculty members including Eliana Chavkin, Malú Machuca Rose, Andrea Briceño Mosquera, Hannah Perkins Stark, and Gwyneth Strope.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale has announced the addition of 21 new tenured and tenure-track faculty this fall. Nine of these new faculty members are women.

Dr. Kitao was a professor of art history at Swarthmore College for 35 years. Dr. Kitao was appointed chair of the studio art program in 1975, and two years later, the program became a full major. She also helped to establish programs in dance and theater.

According to former members of the women's equestrian team at the University of California, Davis, female student-athletes across the university were shorted some 1.4 million in financial aid during the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 academic years.

Dr. Dahlberg will conclude her presidency at the end of the current semester after less than three years of service. Before assuming her current role, she was provost at Texas Christian University.

Stephanie Hassell and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil were promoted to associate professors of history. Kerrie Seymour was promoted to professor of theatre.

Dr. RIchey taught English at Georgian Court University in New Jersey for 54 years. During her long tenure, she served six years as the institution's president.

Rosalind Morris of Columbia University and Katherine Kiesel of the University of California, Davis are taking on academic leadership roles at their institutions. Elena Shadrina is a new assistant professor at Princeton University, and Heather Lerner joined Amherst College as director of the Beneski Museum of Natural History.

The six women in academia who have received 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards are Cindy Juyoung Ok of the University of California, Davis, Juliet Nebolon of Trinity College, Monisha Das Gupta of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Pacharee Sudhinaraset of New York University, Celine Parreñas Shimizu of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Sharon Quinsaat of Grinnell College.