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Camille Davidson Appointed President of Mitchell Hamline School of Law
The Mitchell Hamline School of Law has appointed Camille Davidson as its third president, making her the first Black woman to hold the position. Davidson currently serves as a professor and dean of the School of Law at Southern Illinois University.
Salem College for Women Participating in Program to Help Student Teachers Gain Licensure
Students accepted into the program receive a stipend of $43,000 during the period when they are completing their student teaching requirements as part of a $4.7 million grant program. Each higher education institution focuses on a different licensure area, and for Salem College, its focus is on elementary educators.
New Administrative Duties for Eight 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 Who Have Been Appointed to University Dean Positions
The new deans are Clementina D. Ceria-Ulep at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Jackie Krasas at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kristina K. Bethea Odejimi at Emory University in Atlanta, Jennifer Allen at Portland State University in Oregon, Tina Freiburger at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Yolanda Pierce at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Bonita Brown Is the New Leader of Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights
Since 2019, Brown had been serving as vice president and chief strategy officer at the university. Prior to her role at NKU, Brown served as the vice president for network engagement at Achieving the Dream, a national nonprofit leader that champions evidence-based institutional improvement in community colleges across the country.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities
The four women appointed to dean positions are Anne Y. F. Lin at St. John University in Queens, New York, L. Ebony Boulware at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Shelly Blunt at the University of Southern Indiana, and Margaret I. Kanipes at North Carolina A&T State University.
Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Universities
The new deans are Lisa A. Kitko (University of Rochester), Henrietta Williams Pichon (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs), Sue VandeWoude (Colorado State University), Ahkinyala Cobb-Abdullah (Virginia Union University), Deborah Crown (Pepperdine University), Carla S. Freeman (Emory University), Viki Williams (Old Dominion University), and Nell Jessup Newton (Wake Forest University).
Two Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Provosts
Michele Gillespie was named provost at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Marie Chisholm-Burns was appointed executive vice president and provost of Oregon Health & Science University.
Colleges and Universities Appoint Seven Women to New Administrative Positions
Taking on new duties are Jennifer Hall-Jones at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, Shea Kidd Brown at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, Lissy Garrison at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Lisa VanDeWeert at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Kimberly Davidson at George Mason University in Virginia, Amy Shoemaker at Miami University in Ohio, and DeNeia Thomas at Texas Southern University.
Jennifer Collins Appointed President of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee
Collins has served since 2014 as the Judge James Noel Dean and professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She was appointed to the law faculty at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2003 and was named associate provost for academic and strategic initiatives in 2010 and vice provost in 2013. She will become president of Rhodes College on July 1.
Rebecca Simmons Wins the Entomological Society of America’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching
An entomologist by training, Dr. Simmons has employed her insect expertise in teaching a range of biology courses at the University of North Dakota – including evolution – for the past 17 years. She has been a member of the Entomological Society of America for 25 years.
Seven Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
The women in new administrative posts are Krupal Amin at the University of North Carolina at Chaple Hill, Danielle Sims Brooks at Wiley College in Texas, Katie Tyler at North Dakota State University, Camaron Loritts at Wake Forest University, Beth Kramer at Simmons University in Boston, Dominique Moye at California State University, Northridge, and Sarah Brown at Northwestern University.
Do Non-Tenured Women Faculty Inflate Grades More Than Men to Increase Their Chance of Retention?
The findings indicate that students are more likely to receive higher grades when they take classes with female instructors who hold positions with more contract uncertainty (temporary or pre-tenure) than if the instructor is tenured, but that there is little to no difference in grades received across faculty rank of male instructors.
Three Women Scholars Recognized by the Organization Sociologists for Women in Society
The honorees are Brittany Pearl Battle, an assistant professor in the sociology department at Wake Forest University, Mary Romero, a professor emerita in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, and Heather Laube, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Wake Forest University Appoints Susan R. Wente as Its Fourteenth – and First Woman – President
Currently, Dr. Wente serves as provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She has been on the Vanderbilt faculty since 2002. Dr. Wente began her teaching career at Washington University’s School of Medicine.
Erika Hille Rinker Wins Award From the American Association of Teachers of German
Erika Hille Rinker, an associate professor of German at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was awarded the distinguished 2020 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Teacher Award by the American Association of Teachers of German.
Three Universities Have Announced the Appointment of Women to Dean Positions
Ayanna Howard will be the first woman dean of the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. Michelle Roehm has been appointed interim dean of the School of Business at Wake Forest University and Noma Anderson was named dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont.
Eight Universities Announce the Appointments of Women to 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.
Gretchen Wells Honored With a Mentoring Award From the American Heart Association
Gretchen Wells is a professor of medicine and the director of the Women’s Heart Program at the Gill Heart & Vascular Institute at the University of Kentucky. She was honored for her work mentoring women cardiologists.
Vanderbilt’s Erin Calipari Wins Award From the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Erin Calipari, an assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, was honored for research on “cutting-edge techniques to outline the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms that underlie both adaptive and maladaptive processes in reward, motivation, and associative learning.”
Erin Calipari of Vanderbilt University Wins an Early Career Award in Neuropharmacology
Dr. Calipari is an assistant professor of pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been selected to receive the 2020 Division for Neuropharmacology Early Career Award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Jill Tiefenthaler Will Be the Next Chief Executive Officer of the National Geographic Society
Jill Tiefenthaler, president of Colorado College since 2011, will leave her post this summer to become the chief executive officer of the National Geographic Society. Dr. Tiefenthaler will be the first woman to lead the society in its 132-year history.
In Memoriam: Betty Lentz Siegal, 1931-2020
Betty Siegel was president emeritus of Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the first woman to serve as a campus president for an institution in the University System of Georgia.She served as president of what is now Kennesaw State University from 1981 to 2006.
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: Jane Whitaker Mead, 1958-2019
For many years Jane Mead, an accomplished poet and educator, served as poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Wanda Brown Takes Over as President of the American Library Association
Wanda Brown, the director of library services at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, is the new president of the American Library Association. Founded in 1853, the ALA is the largest library association in the world with more than 57,000 members.
A Dozen Women Who Have Been Named to Dean Posts at Major Universities
The twelve women appointed to dean posts at major universities are: Amy Falkner, Grace Kuo, Amy Hungerford, Lynn Boyd, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Haifa Abou Samra, Pamela F. Cipriano, Susan McIntosh, Kristi Palmer, Jane Aiken, Safiya George, and Allison Brashear.
Study Finds That All Students Benefit When More Women Are in Their First College STEM Course
The research team examined data from students enrolled in an engineering program at a large, public, research-intensive university. The results found that an increase in percentage of women students in their first course improves persistence in the major for all students regardless of their gender.
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.
Study Finds Women Are Less Likely to Be Rewarded for Work-Place Innovations than Men
The researchers found that managers, no matter their gender, struggle with a “think innovation-think male” bias when conducting performance reviews. They found that women employees received better performance ratings when their levels of innovative work behaviors were low.
In Memoriam: Gail R. O’Day (1954-2018)
Dr. O’Day was dean of the School of Divinity and professor of the New Testament at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She served as dean from 2010 to June 30, 2018.
Four Women Scholars Are Stepping Down From Their University Posts
They are Naomi Hanaoka McGloin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Joyce Ice at West Virginia University, Suzanne Reynolds at the Wake Forest University School of Law, and Judith Hough-Goldstein at the University of Delaware.
Eight Women Named to New 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.
Winston-Salem State University’s Wanda Brown to Lead the American Library Association
Wanda K. Brown, the director of library services at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, was named president-elect of the 57,000-member American Library Association. She will serve as president-elect for one year and then will take over the presidency at the conclusion of the association’s 2019 annual meeting.
Wake Forest University’s Penny Rue is the New Board Chair at NASPA
Penny Rue, vice president for campus life at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was elected board chair of NASPA, the nation’s leading organization for student affairs professionals in higher education.
