Breaking News
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Carol Folt Announces She Is Stepping Down as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan. 16, 2019 - The resignation announcement was made while the University of North Carolina System's board of governors was in an emergency session meeting on "issues related to UNC-Chapel Hill's leadership," according to board chair Harry L. Smith Jr. The board was not notified in advance of Chancellor Folt's decision. -
Erica Harden Named President of Oconee Fall Line Technical College in Sandersville, Georgia
Jan. 16, 2019 - Erica Harden began her career at the college in 1990 as director of public relations and marketing and has since held roles as director of admissions, executive director of student affairs, and vice president of academic and student affairs. Most recently, she has served as executive vice president. -
Patricia Kunz Howard Is the New Leader of the Emergency Nurses Association
Jan. 16, 2019 - Patricia Kunz Howard, the University of Kentucky HealthCare enterprise director for emergency services, has been named president of the Emergency Nurses Association. She is the first person in the history of the association to be elected president twice. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Study Finds Women and Men Have Equal Wage Negotiation Skills
Jan. 16, 2019 - A new study from researchers at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the University of Georgia has found that there is no difference in wage negotiation skills between men and women. This contrasts previous beliefs that men are better negotiators than women and therefore are more successful in salary negotiations. -
Women Remain Largely Underrepresented Among Directors of Top-Grossing Films
Jan. 16, 2019 - A recent study from the University of Southern California found that since 2007, only 46 women directed one of the top 1,200 top-grossing films. Out of the 100 top-grossing films in 2018, only four of the 112 directors or co-directors, or 3.6 percent, were women. -
Study Identifies Risk Factors Linked to Sexual Violence in College-Age Women’s Relationships
Jan. 16, 2019 - "There’s this idea that sexual violence doesn’t happen in relationships – certainly not in young women’s first relationships – which is absolutely not the case," said Dr. Angie Kennedy, associate professor of social work at Michigan State University and the lead author of the study. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Ten Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Duties in Higher Education
Jan. 17, 2019 - 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. -
Titilayo Ufomata Appointed Provost at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana
Jan. 17, 2019 - Currently, Dr. Ufomata had served as special advisor to the president and board of trustees at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She first joined the colleges in 2012 as provost and dean of faculty. She will become provost at St. Mary's College on June 1. -
Four Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Deans
Jan. 17, 2019 - Newly appointed to dean positions are Ann Huff Stevens at the University of Texas, Allyson Watson at Florida A&M University, Barbara Hempstead at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and Jill Creighton at Washington State University. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Naomi Halas Wins the 2019 Spiers Memorial Award From the Royal Society of Chemistry
Jan. 17, 2019 - Dr. Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering at Rice University. -
Six Women Scholars Who Have Received Prestigious Honors or Awards
Jan. 17, 2019 - The honorees are Shelly Peper Sitton of Oklahoma State University, Chitra Nayak at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Julie Reagan at Georgia Southern University, Judith Aissen of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Amanda Murdie of the University of Georgia, and Aaron Fobian of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. -
Ann Merchant Boesgaard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From the American Astronomical Society
Jan. 10, 2019 - Dr. Boesgaard was honored at the society's semi-annual meeting in Seattle on January 8 for her work on light-element abundances to test Big Bang nucleosynthesis and for her research on stellar structure and stellar evolution. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Eileen Haughey Searls, 1925-2019 [1.18.2019]
Professor Searls joined the Saint Louis University law library faculty in 1952, after the school had reopened following World War II. She remained there until her retirement in 2000.
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Dartmouth College Launches Mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Course for Faculty and Staff [1.18.2019]
The new initiative comes on the heels of a recent lawsuit filed by seven women that claims that three male professors in the department of psychological and brain sciences “leered at, groped, sexted, intoxicated and even raped female students.”
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In Memoriam: Elisabeth Israels Perry, 1939-2018 [1.18.2019]
Elisabeth Israels Perry was professor emerita of history and women’s and gender studies at Saint Louis University. She taught at a large number of academic institutions before settling in at Saint Louis University in 1999.
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Colette Geary to Step Down as President of the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota [1.18.2019]
Dr. Geary first became president of the private Catholic college in 2016. She is the first laywoman to serve as St. Scholastica president and the first woman president since 1975.
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New Administrative Appointments Relating to Higher Education for a Dozen Women [1.17.2019]
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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In Memoriam: Shirley Jo DuBois Carey, 1936-2019 [1.16.2019]
Dr. Carey taught and conducted research at Emory University School of Nursing for 27 years. In 1976 she assumed responsibility for training clinical nurse specialists in maternal-child health. Her efforts helped create the nurse midwifery, neonatal/perinatal, and child health programs at the nursing school.
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University of Virginia Law School Team Aids Legal Effort to Improve Health Care at a Women’s Prison [1.14.2019]
Alumni and students from the University of Virginia School of Law were on a legal team that recently won an injunction against officials at the Virginia Department of Corrections that mandates improve healthcare for women at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [1.14.2019]
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 [1.14.2019]
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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Stetson University Receives Funding for Science Camp for Girls and Other Underrepresented Youths [1.14.2019]
The Nina B. Hollis Research Impact Awards provide grants for Stetson research projects that explore ways to improve preschool through high school educational outcomes for girls and other youth who are underrepresented in mathematics and computer science.
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In Memoriam: Bernice Sandler, 1928-2019 [1.14.2019]
Bernice Sandler was often referred to as the “godmother of Title IX.” When she applied for her first job in academia, she was told she came “on too strong for a woman.”
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Scholar Claims Wichita State University Retracted a Job Offer After She Revealed She Was Pregnant [1.14.2019]
The plaintiff, now a visiting scholar at Oberlin College in Ohio, claims that she was offered a job at Wichita State. After she had mentioned she was pregnant and inquired about childcare facilities on campus, the job offer was retracted, according to the lawsuit.
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In Memoriam: Tasia Smith, 1986-2018 [1.11.2019]
Tasia Smith was the Evergreen Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology and Human Services at the University of Oregon. Only 32 years old at the time of her death, Dr. Smith had joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2016.
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Two Women Scholars Call for Greater Attention to Gender Differences in Opioid Use Disorder [1.11.2019]
The authors of a commentary in the journal Biology of Sex Differences note that women are more likely than men to be prescribed and use opioid analgesics and that women experience pain and the effects of opioids differently than men. Also, women tend to develop addictions more quickly than men.
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In Memoriam: Susan West Marmagas, 1967-2018 [1.11.2019]
Susan West Marmagas was director of the master of public health degree program and associate professor of practice in the department of population health sciences at Virginia Tech and instructor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke.
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Three Women Who Are Retiring From High-Level Posts at Colleges and Universities [1.11.2019]
Susan Grant has retired as director of university housing at North Carolina State University. Judith L. Bonner, provost at Mississippi State University, and Kathy Hart, president of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, announced that they will step down later this year.
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New Duties for Eight Women Scholars in Academia [1.10.2019]
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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Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Four Universities [1.10.2019]
The new deans are Kimberly Mutcherson at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, Hannah Carter at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Linda Kern at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and Kimberly Foster at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Revokes Honor for Professor Angela Davis [1.10.2019]
In September of 2018, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s board of directors selected Angela Davis to receive the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award at its annual gala in February. That decision has now been changed and the event has been cancelled. Dr. Davis believes her support of Palestinian rights prompted the decision.
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Ten Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education [1.10.2019]
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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Study Finds Academic Engineering Remains Largely the Domain of White Men [1.9.2019]
The study found that from 2001 to 2015, the number of women faculty members at U.S. medical schools increased by 34 percent. But the number of women faculty members in schools of engineering increased by only 4 percent from 2006 to 2014.
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Kimberly Ballard-Washington Selected to Lead Savannah State University in Georgia [1.9.2019]
Ballard-Washington currently serves as associate vice chancellor for legal affairs for the University System of Georgia. Ballard-Washington will become interim president on July 1 upon the retirement of Cheryl Davenport Dozier. Dr. Dozier had led Savannah State University since 2011.
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