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Cady Short-Thompson Appointed the Seventh President of Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Short-Thompson has been serving as CEO and executive director of Breakthrough Cincinnati, a nonprofit organization focused on educational equity that provides rigorous college preparatory programs for high-need and high-potential middle and high school students and inspires and trains college students as the next generation of teachers.
In Memoriam: Wynetta Devore, 1929-2020
Dr. Devore began her academic career at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. She then taught at Rutgers University before joining the faculty at Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in 1980. She retired in 1999.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Statistics Textbook Co-Authored by Hope College Scholar Earns Two Awards
Jill Vanderstoep, an assistant professor of mathematics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, is sharing the 2018 Daniel Solow Author’s Award from the Mathematical Association of America for a textbook on statistics.
Cady Short-Thompson Named Provost at Hope College in Holland, Michigan
For the past seven years, Dr. Short-Thompson has been dean of Blue Ash College of the University of Cincinnati. Earlier in her career, Dr. Short-Thompson served for 13 years on the communication department faculty at the University of Northern Kentucky.
Two Women Named to Endowed Professorships at Hope College
Linda Graham was named to the Dorothy Wiley Delong Professorship in Dance and Laurie Pardo was appointed to the Evert J. and Hattie E. Biekkink Professorship in education at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
Three Women in New Faculty Roles
Janine Hiller was appointed to an endowed chair at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Yolanda Vega at Hope College in Michigan and Claire White at Princeton University in New Jersey were appointed assistant professors.
Six Women Academics Receive Notable Awards
The honorees are Susanna Childress, Marika Botha, Patricia Whitely, Margaret Campbell, Karen Richman, and Kimberly Bess.
