Chaudron Gille to Lead the University of North Georgia

With more than three decades of faculty and administrative experience, Dr. Gille has served as the University of North Georgia's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since 2019. She will now serve as the university's interim president, effective November 1.

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Assistant Professor – Higher Education Governance and Policy

The Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in higher education governance and policy.

Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems – Saunders College of Business

The Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position in Management Information Systems and Business Analytics.

Faculty Position in Electrical Engineering

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Assistant Professor, Jazz

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Associate Professor, Piano Pedagogy

The Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure-stream position in the area of Piano Pedagogy.

Future Faculty in the Physical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Seven Women Named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently announced that 21 researchers are joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. These early-career scientists will receive four years of funding to explore cutting-edge research uncovering insights into human health and disease. Seven of the new Pew Scholars are women.

American Philosophical Society Elects a Dozen American Academic Women as New Members

This year the American Philosophical Society granted membership to 33 Americans. Of these, 12 are women with ties to the academic world in the United States.

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Statistic of the Week
16%
Percentage of U.S. male faculty members who say they feel devalued at work
38%
Percentage of U.S. female faculty members who say they feel devalued at work
Source: PNAS Nexus
(see WIAReport post)

Six Women Professors Selected for Academic Leadership Roles at Universities

The women taking on new academic leadership roles are Laura E. Lyons at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mila Getmansky Sherman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sheryl Oring at Virginia Commonwealth University, Maria Victoria Murillo at Columbia University, Madhusmita Misra at Washington University, and Ashley Nickels at Rutgers University-Camden.

UCLA Presents Its Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award to Zuzana Buřivalová

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Five Women Appointed to New Administrative Roles in Higher Education

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Nilanjana Dasgupta Wins Book Prize From the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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Six New Tenure-Track Faculty at Haverford College in Pennsylvania

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In the 1970s, Dr. Orenstein helped create the women's studies program at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She later spent 25 years teaching comparative literature and gender studies at the University of Southern California.

The Large Gender Gap in Doctoral Awards in Specific Disciplines

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Chaudron Gille to Lead the University of North Georgia

With more than three decades of faculty and administrative experience, Dr. Gille has served as the University of North Georgia's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since 2019. She will now serve as the university's interim president, effective November 1.

Study Finds Women Are More Likely to Be Promoted to CEO at Multi-Division Companies

“By making managerial performance attributable, comparable, and visible, firm structure can influence who advances to the highest levels of leadership. For women managers, divisionalized structures may provide a clearer path to CEO promotion because they make accomplishments harder to overlook and easier to evaluate,” the study authors write.

Five Women Postdocs Awarded L’Oréal Women in Science Awards

The five women postdoctoral researchers honored by L'Oréal USA are Danielle Stevens at the University of California, Berkeley, Anna Romanov at MIT, Katherine Lagerstrom at Princeton University, Clarissa Do Ó at Caltech, and Tana Pottorf at Ohio State University.

Pew Research Center Reports on the Gender Gap in Artificial Intelligence

While use of AI chatbots has increased among all U.S. adults over the past two years, women saw a steeper increase. Today, men and women are about equally likely to say they use AI chatbots. However, women remain more skeptical about the technology's future.

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