Joy Castro, Xia Hong, Jena Asgarpoor, Manda Williamson, and Bonita Sharif were appointed to named professorships at the flagship campus of the University of Nebraska.

Dr. Brickhouse has served as provost of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for the past seven years. She is slated to retire from her leadership role in July and return to the faculty following a one-year sabbatical.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Jo Ann Blondin has been named Woman of the Year by the Association for Women in Community Colleges. She is slated to retire this summer after 33 years in higher education and 13 years at the helm of Clark State College in Ohio.

The new deans are Kristin Eschenfelder, Gena Southall, Tracey Gregory, Ceridwyn King, Anne Stevens, Melanie Landon-Hays, Melanie Bloom, Carolyn Pepper, Deborah Farringer, and Kirsten Hokeness.

Edwidge Dantict, the Wun Tsum Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University, is the author of 18 books, including works of fiction and nonfiction.

The appointments are Katie Tarr at Bryn Mawr College, Sheena Cobrand at North Carolina A&T State University, Xiran Yuan at Colorado State University, Amber Burdge at Western Colorado University, Ally Palmer at Western Wyoming Community College, Sarah Custer at Clemson University, Kate Dorrity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Brittany Kicklighter at Western Carolina University.

Dr. Ondrechen has taught chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University in Boston for more than 45 years. She was recently honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her life-long dedication to mentoring students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM.

The women who have been appointed to endowed faculty positions are Lisa Abendroth at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, Laura Reina at Florida State University, Elizabeth Craig at the University of New Hampshire, and Karin Pfeiffer at Michigan State University.

In a focus group study led by Clemson University, participants often reported a sense of “secondary institutional betrayal,” in which they believe, regardless of their own experiences, that their university cares more about maintaining its reputation than supporting students' well-being follow incidents of sexual misconduct.

Jennifer Hunt, who has been serving as interim dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been appointed dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She will be the first woman to lead the Ivy League medical school in its 229-year history

Overall, mothers are 15 percent less likely than fathers to be employed at universities. At the tenured level, men's employment is unaffected by parenthood, while women experience a drop of 23 percent in their rate of tenured employment.