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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education

Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education

Grants were awarded to Shelley White-Means of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Wellesley College, Howard University, and the WISE Women’s Business Center at Syracuse University.

Nancy Cantor Named President of Hunter College in New York

Nancy Cantor Named President of Hunter College in New York

Dr. Cantor says she is “eager to collaborate with communities across New York City to highlight how higher education can answer the call of what the public needs, now and going forward.”

A Half Dozen Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities

A Half Dozen Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Three Women Who Are Taking on New Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Three Women Who Are Taking on New Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Sekile M. Nzinga was appointed vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Professor Gwendolyn D. Pough has been given the added duties as associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility at Syracuse University and Virginia Tech’s Menah Pratt was named chair-elect for the Council on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities

The women faculty taking on new duties are Mary E. Graham at Syracuse University in New York, Heather Congdon at the University of Maryland Baltimore, Tracey Sharpley-Whiting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Maja Husar Holmes at the University of Kansas.

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Honors Gwendolyn Pough

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Honors Gwendolyn Pough

Gwendolyn D. Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York, is the latest recipient of the 2023 Ede Mentoring Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. The biennial award recognizes impactful mentorship of students, campus leadership, professionals, and others.

Eight Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Positions or Duties

Eight Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Positions or Duties

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Universities Announce New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

Universities Announce New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles

The women scholars taking on new assignments are Heidi Hehnly at Syracuse University, Hope Wilson at Northern Illinois University, Chinenye Anyanwu at the University of Connecticut, Jennifer Freeman at Purdue University, Sabrina Jedlicka at Lehigh University, Smanathat Francois at Clark University, and Jocelyn Viterna at Harvard University.

Syracuse University Historian Tess Murphy Wins Two Book Awards for <em>The Creole Archipelago</em>

Syracuse University Historian Tess Murphy Wins Two Book Awards for The Creole Archipelago

Dr. Murphy won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize the French Colonial Historical Society. Her book previously won the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association

In Memoriam: Micere Githae Mugo, 1942-2023

In Memoriam: Micere Githae Mugo, 1942-2023

A native of Kenya, Dr. Mugo fled her native land to political turmoil and taught at St. Lawrence University. After returning to Africa to teach in Zambia and Zimbabwe, in 1992 she was named a visiting professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. A year later, she joined the department of African American studies at Syracuse University where she served for 22 years.

Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles

Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles

Taking on new duties or positions are Junko Takeda at Syracuse University in New York, Kimberly Juanita Brown at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Rima Franklin at Virginia Commonwealth University, Belinda Blevins-Knabe at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, Cameron Bushnell at Clemson University in South Carolina, and Michelle Starz-Gaiano at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Seven Women Who Have Been Assigned to New Administrative Roles at Universities

Seven Women Who Have Been Assigned to New Administrative Roles at Universities

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships

Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships

The four women appointed to named chairs are Margarita Estévez-Abe at Syracuse University in New York, Tonya Pinkins at Fordham College at Lincoln Center in New York City, Limor Golan at Washington University in St. Louis, and Marcia Chatelain at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

The three women faculty members who have been appointed to endowed professorships are Azadeh Tajdar in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, Jessica Brantley in the department of English at Yale University, and Kristen Harrison in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ten Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Duties at Colleges and Universities

Ten Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Duties at Colleges and Universities

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Eight Women Who Have Been Assigned New University Administrative Positions

Eight Women Who Have Been Assigned New University Administrative 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education

A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education

Taking on new positions or duties are Rossana Hu at the University of Pennsylvania, Mary Wiedenhoeft at Iowa State University, Lois Agnew, at Syracuse University in New York, and Joan Blakey at the University of Minnesota.

Three Women in New University Roles Relating to Diversity

Three Women in New University Roles Relating to Diversity

Taking on new roles relating to diversity are Jeanine Staples-Dixon at Pennsylvania State University, Emily Babb at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Noura Allen in the College of Professional Studies at Syracuse University in New York.

Carrie Mae Weems of Syracuse University Is the Winner of the 2023 Hasselblad Award

Carrie Mae Weems of Syracuse University Is the Winner of the 2023 Hasselblad Award

The Hasselblad Award is an international photography prize that is granted annually to a photographer recognized for major achievements. The award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize” of photography. The award includes a monetary prize of about $188,000 and a gold medal.

University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Recognized by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Recognized by the American Society of Preventive Oncology

Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, a professor who holds the Webb Endowed Chair of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was awarded the 2023 Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Society of Preventive Oncology. The award is given annually to an outstanding scientist in the area of preventive oncology, cancer control and/or cancer prevention.

Four Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Positions at Major Universities

Four Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Positions at Major Universities

The four women named to endowed university positions are Lorie Donelle at the University of South Carolina, Karin Nisenbaum at Syracuse University in New York, Phylicia Rashad at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Amanda W. Dotseth at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Six Woman Scholars Assigned to New Roles or Duties at Colleges and Universities

Six Woman Scholars Assigned to New Roles or Duties at Colleges and Universities

Taking on new assignments are Julianne Grose at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Emily House at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Michelle Robinson at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Georgia Mansell at Syracuse University in New York, Patricia Smith in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in New Jersey, and Theresa Law at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

A Trio of Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Universities

A Trio of Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Universities

Hannah Stolze was appointed the inaugural William E. Crenshaw Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management at Baylor University in Texas. Teri K. Reed has been named to the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair at the University of Oklahoma Polytechnic Institute in Tulsa and Heidi Hehnly was named the Renée Crown Honors Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics at Syracuse University in New York.

Four Women Who Have Been Assigned to New Roles in Higher Education Relating to Diversity

Four Women Who Have Been Assigned to New Roles in Higher Education Relating to Diversity

The women taking on new administrative duties relating to diversity are Suzette Meléndez at Syracuse University in New York, Lita Little Giddins at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Alicia Richardson at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, and B. Afeni McNeely Cobham at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

Five Women Faculty Members Taking on New Assignments at Universities

Five Women Faculty Members Taking on New Assignments at Universities

The women scholars in new roles are Naomi Halas at Rice University in Houston, Tennille Presley at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, Lauren Surovi at Syracuse University in New York, Tatiana Engel at Princeton University in New Jersey, and Soyica Colbert at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Seven Women Who Have Been Selected for New Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Seven Women Who Have Been Selected for New Administrative Posts 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Syracuse University's Jamie Winders Recognized by the Center for Migration Studies

Syracuse University’s Jamie Winders Recognized by the Center for Migration Studies

Dr. Winders, who is a professor of geography and associate provost for faculty affairs at Syracuse University, was honored for her contributions to the International Migration Review, the Center for Migration Studies’ flagship journal which she edited from October 2017 until June 2022.

Eight Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

Eight Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Duties 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

New Assignments in Higher Education for Seven Women Faculty Members

New Assignments in Higher Education for Seven Women Faculty Members

Taking on new duties are Pearl Dowe at Emory University in Atlanta, Suzanne M. Darais at the University of Utah, Sarah Kenehan at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, Stephanie Ricker Schulte at the University of Arkansas, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Chandice Haste-Jackson at Syracuse University in New York, and Miriam Mara at Arizona State University.

Six Universities Announce the Appointments of Women Scholars to Dean Positions

Six Universities Announce the Appointments of Women Scholars to Dean Positions

Newly appointed to dean positions are Tamara F. Lawson at the University of Washington’s School of Law, Susan Alberts at Duke University in North Carolina, Laura Lawson at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Elimelda Moige Ongeri at North Carolina A&T State University, Chrystalla Mouza at the University of Illinois, and Lois Agnew at Syracuse Univerity n New York.

A Dozen Women Who Have Been Assigned New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

A Dozen Women Who Have Been Assigned New Administrative Duties 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

New Administrative Duties for 10 Women in Higher Education

New Administrative Duties for 10 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments at Universities

Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments at Universities

Taking on new roles or duties are Mary Bernstein at the University of Connecticut, Kristina G. Douglass at Columbia University in New York City, Shannon Monnat at Syracuse University in New York, Miranda Drake at the University of South Dakota, Ashleigh Graveline at Clarkson University in Postdam, New York, and Nancy Glenn at Boise State University in Idaho.

Three Women Who Have Been Appointed University Diversity Officers

Three Women Who Have Been Appointed University Diversity Officers

Taking on new roles relating to diversity are Marcella Gomez at the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Rockell Brown Burton at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York, and Doris Fields is serving as interim chief diversity officer at Eastern Michigan University.