Women in Higher Education articles from April 2003

Women in Higher Education archives from April 2003

Ed. dept. promises to nix Title IX panel's misogynous ideas.
April 1, 2003... After seven months, $700,000 and six meetings, the hand-picked group of 15 leaders called the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics did just what critics expected: recommend weakening the 30-year-old civil rights law that has given women a...

Race-sensitive campus programs are at risk. (Newswatch).
April 1, 2003... Jumping the gun on an anticipated summer Supreme Court ruling that could ban race-conscious admission policies at the University of Michigan and other campuses, three advocacy groups are working to identify and challenge any college program...

Awards encourage mentors in the sciences. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Just when programs helping underrepresented groups in science and engineering are coming under fire as illegal, a group of ten scholars and six organizations received 2002 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and...

Rape scandal reported at Air Force Academy. (Newswatch).
April 1, 2003... After four U.S. Senators called for an investigation of rape charges by female cadets at the U.S. Air Academy in Colorado Springs, the Defense Department plans to investigate all U.S. military academies, including those for the Navy, Army and...

Holyoke feminists find gun-toting a blast. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... At Mount Holyoke College MA, the nation's oldest women's college, about 75 students are learning to protect themselves with a gun, as members of a campus chapter of the Second Amendment Sisters. Focused on political advocacy and developing...

Sports scandals rock presidents. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Ill-considered decisions involving their school's sports programs have gotten three presidents of schools in trouble recently. All three schools ended their basketball seasons early to try to impress the NCAA that they are policing their own...

Vagina Monologues plays at Xavier U, after all. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Giving in to vigorous protests by students and faculty at Xavier University in Cincinnati, the president of this Jesuit university withdrew his cancellation of the play The Vagina Monologues, and the show went on. The Rev. Michael J....

Media hype first woman to coach Div. I men. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Through a fluke, AD Theresa Phillips at Tennessee State became the first woman to coach a men's Division I basketball team. Acting coach Hosea Lewis had been suspended for one game after a benches-clearing brawl in an earlier game, so Phillips...

Med schools to test alternative curricula. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Three medical schools will serve as test sites on integrating complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches into mainstream med school curricula. The foundation of the American Medical Student Association chose the three for...

Student accused of two sex assaults to stay. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Having a wife and four young children living in married university housing is a "distinguishing factor" that probably convinced a judge to prevent the University of North Dakota from evicting a 28-year-old student accused of sexual assault on...

Wisconsin group to empower women. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Based on a perceived lack of technical skills by women students, a University of Wisconsin student group playfully called The Women's Art and Technology collective (TWAT) is forming to facilitate skill-sharing. It will use a book club...

Miss. U for women bids students safety. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... As millions of college students headed out for spring break last month, keeping their students safe was a priority for student affairs leaders at the Mississippi University for Women. Packets distributed by the student health center...

Survey finds more women work to finance college.
April 1, 2003... With a flailing economy and rising tuition, more students worry about paying for college. According to its 2002 survey just released by the Higher Education Research Institute at the UCLA, women students in particular plan to have a job while...

How can campus women turn core values into action?
April 1, 2003... Making campus leadership more diverse is a priority of the American Council on Education (ACE) in its new strategic plan unveiled in November 2002. Three months later, the ACE network state coordinators discussed how women can make the ACE core...

Transfer students find open doors at some schools.
April 1, 2003... Nearly one-third of postsecondary students will transfer to another school, according to the U.S. Department of Education. These days, more go directly from a community college to a four-year school. Since women students are more likely to...

Enron whistleblower elaborates.
April 1, 2003... Sherron Watkins, the whistleblower who exposed Enron's accounting practices, enthralled a large crowd in February 2003 at the Women in Leadership Forum in St. Paul sponsored by the College of St. Catherine MN. With her plain talk and soft...

A behavioral wish list for women administrators. (In Her Own Words).
April 1, 2003... By Mary Lee Sargent, professor of history and director the Office of Women's Programs and Services at Parkland College IL From a presentation to Parkland College's chapter of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC)...

Take control of your job search, consultant advises.
April 1, 2003... Executive search consultants don't work for you, the candidate. Their client is the school that's doing the search. "You expect us to find you jobs and create career advice. We don't do that," Nancy Archer-Martin told American Council on...

Presidential assistant: 'chief of staff sees the big picture.
April 1, 2003... An effective campus presidential assistant (PA) must thrive in a role where everybody wants a piece of you. It means being able to manage stress, time, tasks, people and your environment, keeping in mind the big picture. Although highly...

Goal of education is to engage students in democracy.
April 1, 2003... Schools should be more than learning communities -- they should be living laboratories for democracy and civic responsibility, according to Dr. Judith Ramaley, assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science...

Hmong women in a nontraditional college: replacing fragmented backgrounds with American individualism. (In Her Own Words).
April 1, 2003... By Dr. Collette Garrity, VP for extended studies The College of Saint Scholastica MN My position as an administrator at a small Midwestern proprietary college from 1995 until 2000 provided me with my first experiences of working with Hmong...

What is clutter? (The Last Laugh).
April 1, 2003... It's getting to be crunch time around my house and my office, and by extension, my brain as well. Academics like to start out by defining the problem, so I turned to the Webster's New World Dictionary for a definition of clutter, finding...