All Entries Tagged With: "Wellesley College"
Notable Honors or Awards for Three Women Scholars
The women being honored are Paula A. Johnson, president of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Phoebe A. Haddon, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden, and Jill Portnoy, an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
New Administrative Posts for Ten 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.
In Memoriam: Josephine Louise Ott, 1926-2018
In 1957 Josephine Ott began teaching French at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She became a full professor in 1975 and remained on the college’s faculty until her retirement in 1992.
New Administrative Roles for 17 Women at Colleges and Universities Across America
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Janet Rapelye Named President of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education
For the past 15 years, Rapelye has been dean of admissions at Princeton University in New Jersey. During her tenure, annual applications to Princeton have nearly tripled. Before coming to Princeton, Rapelye was dean of admission at Wellesley College from 1991 to 2003.
Yale University Study Documents How Title IX Complaints Have Changed Over the Years
The data shows that complaints citing discrimination in academics were the most common type filed for nearly all of the last 20 years, while athletics complaints were the least commonly filed. Complaints alleging schools violated the law by mishandling sexual harassment began to rise in 2006, skyrocketing in 2009.
Mount Holyoke College’s Darby Dyer Received the Distinguished Scientist Medal
M. Darby Dyer, the Kennedy Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy and chair of the department of astronomy at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, was honored for lifetime achievement by the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute.
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.
The National Academies Urge Academia to Take a Stand Against Sexual Harassment
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has issued a new report that notes that 58 percent of women faculty and staff in academia (all disciplines, not limited to science, engineering, and medicine) have experienced sexual harassment.
Wellesley College’s New Website Highlighting Faculty Research
The new webpage aims to publicize the path-breaking and creative work of faculty from across the college and to celebrate the many competitive fellowships, grants, and awards Wellesley faculty receive throughout the year. The research is widely diverse and is organized by academic discipline.
Linda Tropp Earns the Scientific Impact Award From the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
The Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology “honors the author of a specific article offering a theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological contribution that has proven highly influential over the last 25 years.”
Elizabeth Sayrs to Serve as Provost at Ohio University in Athens
Dr. Sayrs is dean of University College and vice provost for undergraduate education at Ohio University in Athens. She will serve as interim provost and executive vice president while a search for a permanent new provost is conducted. Dr Sayrs has taught at Ohio University since 2004.
In Memoriam: Elizabeth Sutton Stuart, 1940-2017
Dr. Stuart taught and conducted research at the University of Massachusetts for 37 years. She directed the university’s program in chlamydia vaccine research and was issued six patents.
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.
In Memoriam: Susan Klem Jackson
Dr. Susan Jackson began teaching at Boston University in 1982 as a lecturer in French. At the time of her death, she was an associate professor of French and assistant provost for general education at the university.
The Huge Gender Pay Gap for College Graduates in Their Mid-40s
The authors tracked the quarterly earnings of men and women college graduates between 1995 and 2008. They found that at the start of their careers after college, the earnings gap was very small. But as these graduates reached their mid-40s the gender gap became huge.
In Memoriam: Beth Kulakofsky Smith, 1921-2017
Beth Smith taught leadership and management courses at the Henry M. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. An endowed chair at the School of Management was named in her honor. Smith and her husband also endowed a chair in Jewish studies at Wellesley College.
A Major Vote of Confidence for the President of Lafayette College
In 2013, Alison Byerly was named the first woman president of Lafayette College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Easton, Pennsylvania. The board of trustees of Lafayette College has now extended Dr. Byerly’s contract for an additional five years.
Four Women’s Colleges Among the Top Producers of Peace Corps Volunteers
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and Spelman College in Atlanta ranked in a tie for seventh place on the small colleges list with 11 alumnae currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers.
Wellesley College Offers a New Minor Degree Program in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
The new minor at the highly rated women’s college will allow students to create a structured yet individualized plan of study from interdisciplinary courses that offer rigorous and complementary approaches to understanding race and ethnicity.
Persis Drell Will Be the Next Provost at Stanford University
Dr. Drell has been serving a dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford since 2014. Earlier, she was the director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. She will begin her new duties as provost on February 1.
Duke University Scholar Honored for Her Book on Religious History
Caroline Bruzelius, the Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, has been selected as the inaugural winner of the Pelikan Award from Yale University Press. The award recognizes the best book published by the press on the subject of religion over the past two years.
Where Do Women’s Colleges Stand in the New U.S. News Rankings?
Some women’s colleges made impressive gains in their rankings. In fact of the six women’s colleges ranked in the top 50 of all national liberal arts colleges, five have shown an improvement over their rankings in 2013. Wellesley College is now ranked third nationally among all liberal arts colleges.
Website Names Its Picks for the Best Colleges and Universities for Women
The rankings come out very similar to those for the best national research universities published by U.S. News & World Report. The top five colleges and universities for women according to CollegeChoice are Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and MIT.
The First Woman to Chair the Board of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
Cynthia Shapira will chair the board of governors that oversees the operations of 14 state universities that combined enroll more than 100,000 students. She is a trustee at Point Park University in Pittsburgh and Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
MIT Establishes Excellence Through Adversity Award to Honor Robbin Chapman of Wellesley College
Robbin Chapman is the former manager of diversity recruiting at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and also served as the inaugural assistant associate provost for faculty equity at the university. She joined the administration of Wellesley College in suburban Boston in 2011.
Website Offers Its Choices for the Best Women’s Colleges in the United States
Wellesley College in Massachusetts was rated as the best women’s college in the nation by the College Choice website. Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, was ranked second with Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania holding the third spot.
History Professor Wins Three Awards for Her Latest Book
Nancy Woloch, who teaches history at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City, has won three awards for her latest book A Class By Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890-1990s.
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.
Law School Dean Completes the Boston Marathon in Her Eighth Month of Pregnancy
Jocelyn Benson, dean of the Wayne University Law School in Detroit, is expecting her first child on June 4. On April 18, Dr. Benson, with the approval of her doctor, competed in and finished the Boston Marathon.
Yale Honors the First Seven Women to Earn Ph.Ds at the University
Yale University recently honored the first women to earn Ph.D.s at the educational institution by unveiling portraits of the scholars that will be permanently displayed on campus. The women all earned their doctoral degree in 1894.
Wellesley College Partners With Ashoka University in India
The five-year agreement calls for the joint development of course content, research collaborations for faculty members and students, faculty exchanges, and possible student exchanges and study abroad opportunities.
Three Women’s Colleges Among the Top Producers of Peace Corps Volunteers
Simmons College in Boston ranked eighth among the small colleges and universities. Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and Wellesley College in Massachusetts also were among the top 25 small colleges with the most graduates serving in the Peace Corps.
Wellesley College Offers the First MOOCs in Italian Language and Culture
Wellesley College, the highly rated and selective liberal arts college for women in Massachusetts, has announced the establishment of three massive open online courses (MOOCs) in beginning, intermediate, and advanced Italian. The MOOCs are taught by Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, a lecturer in Italian studies.
Paula Johnson Named the Next President of Wellesley College
Dr. Johnson is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the founder and executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
