Breaking News
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Dean at Illinois State University is the New Head of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans
Oct. 16, 2019 - Jean M. Miller, dean of the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University since 2015, will serve as president of the organization for three years. Dean Miller has been an active member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans for 11 years. -
Ann Bain Is the New Provost at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Oct. 16, 2019 - Dr. Bain joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1987 as an assistant professor of nursing. She served as chair of the department of nursing for 16 years, until she was named interim dean of the College of Sciences in 2013. -
Karen Viskupic Named President of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Oct. 16, 2019 - Karen Viskupic, an assistant research professor of geosciences at Boise State University in Idaho. She works with geoscience faculty on curriculum development and assessment, advises all undergraduate geoscience students, and works on several campus-wide initiatives to improve undergraduate and graduate STEM student success. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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New Survey Shows More Than a Quarter of Undergraduate Women Students Have Been Victims of Sexual Misconduct
Oct. 16, 2019 - A survey conducted by the Association of American Universities finds that 26 percent of undergraduate women students have been victims orf sexual assault or misconduct.. For graduate women, 10.8 percent were victims or sexual assault or misconduct. For both undergraduate and graduate women, the rates increased from an earlier AAU -
Yale University Study Looks at Fertility Rates of College-Educated Women From Generation X
Oct. 16, 2019 - Generation X women in the United States — those born between 1965-1982 — had higher total fertility rates than their counterparts in the Baby Boomer generation across all levels of education with the greatest increase seen in college-educated women. -
Study Measured Gender Differences in Emotional Responses of Viewers of the 2016 Presidential Debates
Oct. 16, 2019 - A research team from Georgia State University and Arizona State University used a novel technique to assess the facial expressions of viewers who watched the debates. The results showed that the impact of emotions was stronger for women viewers and that gender issues were more important for them as well. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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New Roles in Higher Education for Six Women Faculty Members
Oct. 21, 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. -
Gina Yosten Named Editor-in-Chief of a Prestigious Journal in Physiology
Oct. 17, 2019 - Gina Yosten, an associate professor of pharmacology at Saint Louis University will be the next editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. When she begins her new duties in July, she will be the first woman to have held the position. -
The Business School at the University of South Dakota Adds Three Women to Its Faculty
Oct. 17, 2019 - The Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota announces the addition of four new faculty members for the fall 2019 semester. Three of the new hires are women: Meiying Hua in accounting and finance, Tammy Loos in human resource management, and Elizabeth Manser Payne in marketing. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Birgit Tautz Wins Book Award for Her Work on German Literature
Oct. 17, 2019 - Birgit Tautz, the George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is being honored for her most recent book by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. -
Mary Nettleman Honored for Her Work to Advance Women in Academic Medicine
Oct. 17, 2019 - Mary Nettleman is the dean of the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine and vice-president of the university’s Division of Health Affairs. She is being honored by the American College of Physicians. -
University of Georgia to Rename Its College of Education to Honor Mary Frances Early
Oct. 17, 2019 - Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African American students to enroll at the University of Georgia in 1961. But Mary Frances Early was the first African American to earn a degree from the University of Georgia. She was awarded a master’s degree in music education in August 1962. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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For the First Time in 140 Years, Women Serve as Members of the University of Notre Dame Fire Department [10.21.2019]
Founded in 1879, the Univerity of Notre Dame Fire Department is the first and oldest University fire department in the nation. Now, for the first time in this long history, there are women firefighters: Christi Shibata and Michelle Woolverton.
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Cedar Crest College Enters Partnership With Salus University to Provide Graduate Opportunities for Women [10.21.2019]
Under the agreement, women at Cedar Crest who complete a pre-audiology curriculum at Cedar Crest with a 3.3 GPA for three years or above can apply for admission to complete a doctor of audiology degree at Salus University with four additional years of study. A similar 3+4 program will be available for student in optometry.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [10.21.2019]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Eight Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties at Colleges and Universities [10.17.2019]
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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Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships [10.17.2019]
The four women scholars appointed to endowed chairs are Melinda Lopez at Boston College, Holly Hillgardner at Bethany College in West Virginia, Clarissa Nobile at the University of California, Merced, and Debby R. Walser-Kuntz at Carelton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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Hamilton College’s Shelley Haley Elected to Lead the Society for Classical Studies [10.16.2019]
Dr. Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and professor of Classics and Africana Studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She will serve for a year as president-elect of the society during 2020 and become president in January 2021.
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In Memoriam: Janice Hardison Faulkner, 1932-2019 [10.16.2019]
Faulkner joined the English department faculty at what is now East Carolina University in 1957. In addition to teaching English, over a long career she served as director of alumni affairs, chair of the board of the ECU Credit Union, director of the Regional Development Institute, and associate vice chancellor for regional development.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [10.15.2019]
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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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [10.15.2019]
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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Name Change and More for Women’s Studies at Southern Connecticut State University [10.14.2019]
Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven has announced that it is changing the name of its Women’s Studies Program to the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. In addition to the name change, the program will be strengthened with new offerings.
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LaSalle University Study Examines Gender Diversity of College and University Boards of Trustees [10.14.2019]
A new report from La Salle University and the Women’s Nonprofit Leadership Initiative examined the gender make up of the boards of directors of the 50 largest medical and educational institutions in the Philadelphia area. Only four of the area’s 25 largest colleges and universities had a board where a majority of the members were women.
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In Memoriam: Trish Del Pozzo, 1943-2019 [10.14.2019]
Trish Del Pozzo, who served as assistant academic secretary at Stanford University for more than three decades. In this role. she was the chief administrator for the Faculty Senate and its committees.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [10.14.2019]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Eight Women Faculty at Major Universities Who Are Taking on New Duties [10.11.2019]
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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In Memoriam: Mary Jean Mulvaney, 1927-2019 [10.11.2019]
Mary Jean Mulvaney was a professor emerita of physical education and former director of athletics at the University of Chicago.
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The First Woman to Be Honored With a Statue on the Campus of Indiana University [10.10.2019]
In 2009, Elinor Ostrom, a professor of political science at Indiana University became the first – and still the only – woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Now the late Dr. Ostrom will be the first woman to have a statue on the university’s campus.
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Three Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Colleges and Universities [10.10.2019]
Angela Kashuba is the new dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dawn Brown McNair was appointed dean of mathematics and sciences at Livingstone College and Doze Y. Butler has been named dean of the School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
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Susan Lanser of Brandeis University Wins Award From the International Society for the Study of Narrative [10.10.2019]
In the society’s announcement of the award, Professor Lanser was praised for “sustained contributions to narrative studies” and for advocating for “the importance of extending the corpus of narratology and of developing a historical narratology.”
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New Administrative Positions for 10 Women in Higher Education [10.10.2019]
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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Simmons University Scholar Wins Award for Her Work on War as a Public Health Problem [10.10.2019]
Shelley K. White an associate professor of public health and sociology and the director of the master of public health degree program at Simmons University in Boston, is being honored by the American Public Health Association at its annual meeting in Philadelphia.
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Four Women Scholars Join the Faculty at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota [10.10.2019]
Macalester College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, has seven new tenure-track faculty members on campus this fall. Four of the new hires are women: Taryn Flock in mathematics, Ariel James in psychology, Christine Sierra O’Connell in environmental studies, and Anna Williams in astronomy.
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Ginny Favede Named the Thirteenth President of Wheeling University in West Virginia [10.9.2019]
Favede has been serving as executive director of the Ohio Valley Construction Employers Council, a not-for-profit association of more than 500 contractors. She is a former county commissioner in West Virginia and has served as chair of the board of trustees of Wheeling University since July. She will step down from that position.
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Examining the Gender Gap in Graduate School Enrollments in the United States [10.9.2019]
In 2018, there were 1,081,528 women students in graduate degree programs in the United States. They made up 57 percent of all enrollments. Women made up 60 percent of the enrollments in master’s degree programs and 52 percent of all those enrolled in doctoral programs.
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