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Two African American Women Appointed to Provost Positions at Pennsylvania Colleges
Monica Parrish Trent has been selected to be the next provost at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, and Sarah Willie-LeBreton, a professor of sociology at Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia, will be the next provost of the highly rated liberal arts institution.
Eleven Women Faculty Members Who Have Been Assigned New Duties
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.
Karen Abrams Named the Next Dean of Duke Law School
Professor Abrams, who will become dean of Duke Law School on July 1, is the vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of law at the University of Virginia. She joined the faculty there in 2005. From 2002, to 2005, Professor Abrams taught at the New York University School of Law.
Five Women in Higher Education Honored With Notable Awards
The honorees are Mariana Federica Wolfner of Cornell University, Leslie Jill Patterson of Texas Tech University, Jessica R. Kramer of the University of Utah, Shideh Dashti of the University of Colorado, and Mary Ann Klassen of Swarthmore College.
Two Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Prestigious Higher Education Institutions
Harriet Flower was named to the Andrew Fleming West Chair in Classics at Princeton University in New Jersey and Lisa Meeden was appointed to the Neil R. Grabois ’57 Professorship in Natural Sciences and Engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
In Memoriam: Anne Pippin Burnett, 1925-2017
After teaching at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, Professor Burnett joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1961 and was promoted to full professor in 1970. She served as chair of the department of classical languages and literatures from 1969 to 1972. She retired in 1992.
Sandra Faber to Be Awarded the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The Gruber Foundation is recognizing Professor Faber for a body of work that has helped establish many of the foundational principles underlying the modern understanding of the universe. Her research focuses on the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Three Women Faculty Members Earn Promotions at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
The three women earning promotions at Swarthmore College are Catherine Crouch in physics, Jane Gillham in psychology, and Christy Schuetze in anthropology.
New Roles for Seven Women Faculty Members at Major Colleges and Universities
Taking on new roles are Tomoko Sakomura at Swarthmore College, Aimee Bender at the University of Southern California, Anne C. Stone at Arizona State University, Ann-Catherine Sullivan at Norfolk State University in Virginia, Canan Dagdeviren at MIT, Lori Rolando at Vanderbilt University, and Raina Merchant at the University of Pennsylvania.
In Memoriam: Carolyn Walch Slayman, 1937-2016
Dr. Slayman served on the faculty at Yale Medical School for nearly a half century. She was the first woman to chair a department at the medical school and the first woman to be named a deputy dean.
Four Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in suburban Philadelphia, has announced the appointment of five faculty members to endowed professorships. Four of the five appointments went to women: Sara Hiebert Burch, Sibelan Forrester, Ann Renninger, and Amy Cheng Vollmer.
The New President of the International Primatological Society
Karen Strier is the Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology and the Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1982, Professor Strier has been conducting research on the northern muriqui monkey in Brazil. It is one of the world’s most critically endangered primates.
Seven Women Higher Education Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards
The honorees are Liliya Yatsunyk of Swarthmore College, Rose McLarney of Auburn University, M. Darby Dyar of Mount Holyoke College, Erika Marin-Spiotta of the University of Wisconsin, Helen Grundman of Bryn Mawr College, Viviana Gradinaru of ClaTech, and Susannah Heschel of Dartmouth College.
New Administrative Posts for Seven Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Swarthmore College Promotes and Grants Tenure to Three Women Faculty Members
The three women promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania are Ayse Kaya in political science, Lara Langer Cohen in English literature, and K. Elizabeth Stevens in acting and directing.
The First Woman Board Chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Anne Kapuscinski is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science and a professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2009, she taught at the University of Minnesota for 25 years.
Women Historians Create Online Database of Early Women Political Candidates
Two women scholars have established the Her Hat Was in the Ring online database of women who ran for public office before the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, which gave women the right to vote nationwide.
Thirteen Women Appointed to Key Administrative Positions in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
In Memoriam: Meg Ellen Spencer, 1959-2015
Meg Spencer served on the staff at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for 34 years. Since 1999, she had been the science librarian at the high-ranking liberal arts college.
New Administrative Roles for Nine Women in Higher Education
The nine women who have been appointed to administrative posts at colleges and universities are Carrie Okinaga, Celina Clarich Polanco, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Elisabeth Medvedow, Beth Winkelstein, Elizabeth Smith, Alice Holland, Nicole Gibbs, and Heidi L. Tracey.
The Next President of Spelman College in Atlanta
Mary Schmidt Campbell is dean emerita of the Tisch School of the Arts and University Professor of art and public policy at New York University. She will become president of Spelman College on August 1.
Swarthmore College Promotes Seven Women Faculty
Promoted to full professor are Farha Ghannam in anthropology, Cheryl Grood in mathematics, and Ellen Ross in religion. New associate professors are Erin Todd Bronchettti, Alexandra Gueydan-Turek, Cheryl Jones-Walker, and Lynne Steuerle Schofield.
The Next President of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
Valerie Smith, dean of the college and the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, was named president of Swarthmore College. She will take office on July 1.
In Memoriam: Rose Richardson Olver, 1937-2014
Rose R. Olver was the L. Stanton Williams ’41 Professor of Psychology and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies, Emerita at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She was the college’s first tenure-track woman faculty member and taught at Amherst for 50 years.
Founder of Swarthmore College Is the Subject of a New Documentary
Lucretia Coffin Mott, a founder of Swarthmore College known for her anti-slavery and equal rights work, serves as the first subject of the documentary series The Women of Philadelphia.
The New Leader of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
Constance Cain Hungerford will become interim president of Swarthmore College on July 14. She is the Mari S. Michener Professor of Art History at the college and served as provost at Swarthmore from 2001 to 2011.
Rebecca Chopp Appointed Chancellor of the University of Denver
Since 2009, Dr. Chopp has served as president of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, which enrolls about 1,550 undergraduate students. The University of Denver enrolls more than 5,000 undergraduate students and 6,000 graduate students.
Fifteen Women in New Administrative Roles at U.S. Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of new on appointments of women to key administrative positions at colleges and universities across the United States.
In Memoriam: Helen Tartar, 1951-2014
Helen Tartar, the editorial director of Fordham University Press, died in an automobile accident in Colorado on March 3. Tarter joined Fordham University Press in 2003 after a 20-year career in scholarly publishing on the West Coast.
Swarthmore College Promotes Three Women to Full Professor
Amanda Bayer was named a full professor of economics. Tia Newhall was promoted to professor of computer science and Sunka Simon was appointed professor of German studies and film and media studies.
Five Women in New Teaching Roles
The appointees are Rachel Sagner Buurma at Swarthmore College, Fran Mainella of Clemson University, Sandra James-Yi at Virginia Tech, Susan Anderson at the University of South Dakota, and Pamela Diggle at the University of Connecticut.
Swarthmore College Professor to Be Honored by the Linguistic Society of America
Donna Jo Napoli, professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, was selected as the winner of the 2014 Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award from the Linguistic Society of America.
Swarthmore College Takes Steps to Address Sexual Misconduct on Campus
Swarthmore College is one of several institutions of higher education that currently is under investigation by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education. The college is is not waiting for the results of the investigation before it takes action.
Lightning Strikes and Ignites a Fire at the Women’s Resource Center at Swarthmore College
The third floor of the building, which sustained the brunt of the damage, contained the Women’s Resource Center library and its collection of feminist literature. The first and second floors suffered water and smoke damage.
Sexual Misconduct Complaints Filed Against Four Colleges and Universities
The complaints were filed against the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley, Swarthmore College, and Dartmouth College.
