Archive for 2019
The University of Kansas Has Appointed Barbara Bichelmeyer as Its Next Provost
Dr. Bichelmeyer is currently a professor of management and the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also served as interim chancellor. Prior to that, she held numerous leadership roles at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Study Finds That Student Athletes Are a Disproportionate Percentage of Campus Sexual Offenders
The study by the USA Today Network found that student athletes make up about 3 percent of total enrollments but were 9 percent of the student disciplined for sexual misconduct. Football players account for only 1 percent of total enrollments but were 6 percent of all students disciplined for sexual misconduct.
Barbara Wold Named the Director of the Institute for Translational Research at the CalTech
The institute, established earlier this year, aims to help CalTech scientists and engineers transform their breakthroughs into advances in human health and enhance resources for every step in translational science, from basic discovery through clinical collaboration and the introduction of new treatments.
The Gender Gap in Student Enrollments at American Law Schools
The American Bar Association has compiled and published enrollment and degree completion data for its member law schools. Statistics show that in juris doctorate degree programs, women are a majority of students at 125 of the 202 American law schools.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
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.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Harvard University Aims to Boost Women in Its Information Technology Workforce
The Harvard Women in Technology + Allies Mentoring Program’s objective is to make the university a more engaged and inclusive community by increasing retention and promotion of those in IT roles, providing coaching and career-development tools, and empowering members in their workspace.
Three Women Serving as Community College Presidents to Step Down
The three community college presidents who are stepping down are Karen Vickers of Clinton Community College in Iowa, Patricia Gentile of North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, and Linda Moley of Coffeyville Community College in Kansas.
In Memoriam: Catherine Rachel Ostrow-D’Haeseleer, 1954-2019
Armed with only a high school education, Ostrow-D’Haeseleer was hired as an adjunct lecturer in French in 1991 and taught at Wesleyan University for the next 29 years.
St. Mary’s College in Indiana Enters Into Partnership With a Women’s University in China
Under the agreement with Shandong Women’s University in Jinan, China, each semester, both institutions can send two students to the opposite host university, free of tuition. Faculty will participate in a similar exchange program.
Seven Women Scholars at Colleges and Universities Who Are Embarking on New Roles
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.
Hollins University Associate Professor and Novelist Jessie van Eerden Wins Fiction Award
Jessie van Eerden, associate professor of creative writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. The award recognizes daring, original, and innovative writing.
Three Women Scholars Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities
Susan L. Perkins was appointed dean of science at the City University of New York. Mona Hicks was named dean of students and associate vice provost at Stanford University in California and Cora Thompson has been appointed interim dean for the College of Education at Savannah State University in Georgia.
Barbara Knuth, Dean of Cornell’s Graduate School, Honored by the Council of Graduate Schools
Knuth, also a professor of natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, received the honor at an awards ceremony held during the council’s 59th annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The award included a cash prize.
A Half Dozen Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Administration Positions
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
American Society of Criminology Honors “Rock Star” Professor Faye Taxman of George Mason University
At the American Society of Criminology award ceremony, Professor Taxman was described as a scholarly “rock star” who has engaged with and moved the field of corrections for more than 30 years.
Nina Gilbert to Direct the Center for Excellence in Education at Morehouse College in Atlanta
Dr. Gilbert is the former senior advisor on education reform for the Morehouse Research Institute. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Morehouse College and at the Tift College of Education at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
The Gender Gap in College Participation Rates
In October 2018, there were 13,421,000 women between the ages of 18 and 24 in the United States. Of these, 50.2 percent were enrolled in postsecondary education. For men in this age group, 44.7 percent were enrolled in postsecondary education. A similar college participation gap existed for 2018 high school graduates.
Leslie Ward Appointed President of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier
Leslie Ward has been serving as interim president of the college since July of this year. She will officially assume the duties of president on July 1, 2020. She holds a master of fine arts degree in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MBA from Harvard University.
Why Do Women Choose College Majors With Lower Earnings Potential Than Men?
The study by Natasha Quadlin, a sociologist at Ohio State University, found that when men and women both prioritize economic returns in their preferences for a major, men still choose majors that pay more. But even when men and women prioritized other preferences for their major – such as helping people – men still chose higher-paying majors.
Penn State Brandywine Chooses Marilyn Wells as Its Next Chancellor
Dr. Wells has been serving as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Before joining Minnesota State University, Wells served as vice provost and graduate dean of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Harvard Medical School Study Ties Societal Gender Inequality to Perceptual Bias Against Women
The authors suggest that men living in countries with low gender equality are prone to cognitive “lumping” that obscures individual differences. The effect is similar to earlier research that shows that people tend to overlook interpersonal variations in the faces of people from races other than their own.
Katherine Clay Bassard Will Be the Next Provost at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee
Dr. Bassard currently serves as a professor of English and interim senior associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Earlier, she was senior vice provost for faculty affairs at VCU.
In Memoriam: Mary Lowe Good, 1931-2019
Dr. Good served as dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from its founding in 1999 until her retirement in June 2011. During this period she served a term as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
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.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
In Memoriam: Lucie S. Kelly, 1925-2019
At Columbia, Dr. Kelly had a joint appointment as professor of public health and nursing in the School of Nursing and professor of public health and associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Public Health.
Wayne State University Debuts its New Office of Women’s Health
According to the university, the office will work to improve the health of women to maximize the opportunity for families to thrive and achieve economic security. The director of the new office is Sonia Hassan, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
In Memoriam: Patti J. Shock, 1941-2019
Professor Shock began her academic career at Georgia State University. After 10 years on the faculty, she joined the faculty in the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988. She served as chair of the department of tourism and convention administration for 18 years.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Graduates Its 10,000th Woman
Susan K. Rainey, who earned a Seminary Studies for Student Wives certificate, was the 10,000th female graduate from Southwestern Seminary in its 111-year history.
In Memoriam: Shirley Walker Dixon, 1946-2019
Dr. Dixon was a pioneer in many ways at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pennsylvania. In 1990, she was the first African American to be appointed to the university’s board of trustees. In 2018, she was the first person to be awarded a doctorate at the university and also became the first person to earn bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at Cabrini.
Four Women Who Are New to the Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley
Newly hired to the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley are Daniela Cammack in political science, Tesha Sengupta-Irving in the Graduate School of Education, Sophia Shao in electrical engineering and computer science, and Rebecca Wexler in the School of Law.
CalTech’s Frances Arnold Is Named to Serve in the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The academy was established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI with the goal of promoting “the progress of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences.” It is the latest incarnation of papal scientific academies that date back to 1603. Professor Arnold won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Three Women Scholars Appointed to Dean Positions at State Universities
Claudia Mora will be the next dean of the School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Kimberly Wallin was appointed dean of the College of Mathematics and Science at North Dakota State University and Amy Kristof-Brown was named interim dean of the College of Business at the University of Iowa.
Boston University Professor Emelia Benjamin Earns Two Awards From the American Heart Association
Emelia Benjamin, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University. also serves as assistant provost for faculty development for the Boston University Medical Campus, and as vice chair for faculty development and diversity for the department of medicine.
