Women in Higher Education articles from August 2003

Women in Higher Education archives from August 2003

Admitting women to Michigan: 'a dangerous experiment'.
August 1, 2003... In 1870, 53 years after its founding, the University of Michigan's Board of Regents begrudgingly voted to admit women as students. The minutes of the meeting cited concerns that this was "a dangerous experiment that could be disastrous in its...

Title IX escapes unchanged, for now.(News Watch)
August 1, 2003... The explosion of women's and girls' sports will continue, following a letter from the Department of Education telling colleges and universities that its guidelines for complying with Title IX will not change. Advocates of women's sports...

Double-digit tuition increases hurt women.(News Watch)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... According to national student surveys conducted annually by UCLA, female first-year students are significantly more likely than male first-year students to need jobs and loans to pay for their college expenses. If that's the case, and...

Fans continue to love women's basketball.(News Watch)
August 1, 2003... Continuing a 19-year trend, spectators at NCAA women's basketball again broke a record in 2002-2003, with more than 10 million fans attending women's games. The 322 Division I teams attracted 7.3 million fans, and a record 133 of the teams...

Civilian inquiry examines Air Force scandal.(News Watch)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Female cadets were aghast at testimony by former leaders of the Air Force Academy who denied ignoring their complaints and then punishing them for reporting being raped by fellow cadets. After a public hearing before an independent panel...

University of Pennsylvania.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Judith Rodin, who became the first female president of an Ivy League school when she took the reins of the private University of Pennsylvania in 1994, announced plans to step down after 10 years in June 2004. She dramatically enhanced the...

Metropolitan State College of Denver.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Sheila Kaplan, president of Metropolitan State College of Denver, abruptly resigned after 10 years at the college effective July 1. She will spend a year on sabbatical as a history faculty member and serve as a consultant in searching for...

Madison Area Technical College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Beverly Simone, president of the Madison Area Technical College WI for 14 years, announced her resignation effective August 15, after the board of trustees failed to extend her contract past 2005. Honored as the Outstanding Woman of the...

University of Cincinnati.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Nancy Zimpher, chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1998, was expected to be appointed president of the University of Cincinnati at presstime.

Morgan Community College CO.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Michele Haney, former VP of the Boulder county campus of Front Range Community College CO, is president of Morgan Community College CO.

SUNY's College of Technology.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Uma Gupta, dean of the college of technology at the University of Houston, is scheduled to become president of SUNY's College of Technology at Alfred NY.

Northwest State Community College OH.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Betty Young, VP for academic services at Franklin University OH, will become president of Northwest State Community College OH effective September 1.

Cambridge College MA.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Eileen Moran Brown moved from president of Cambridge College MA to chancellor.

Dr. Mahesh Sharma moved from provost and executive VP.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. Mahesh Sharma moved from provost and executive VP to the presidency of Cambridge College MA.

Fayetteville State University.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dr. T.J. Bryan, formerly vice chancellor for academic and student affairs in the Penn State System, is the new chancellor at Fayetteville State University in the University of North Carolina system. She is the first black female chancellor in...

U of California bans professor-student sex.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Professors who have relationships of a "romantic or sexual nature" with students they supervise or "should reasonably expect" to supervise in the future will be in big trouble with the University of California system. The Board of Regents...

RIT to study why women leave IT programs.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... If information technology (IT) is the wave of the future, many female students are failing to catch it or bailing out before getting a good ride. The Rochester Institute of Technology NY just got a $325,000 grant from the National Science...

Cultivating the next generation of female campus leaders.
August 1, 2003... Any home gardener knows that to achieve good plants year after year the soil must be regularly nourished. So, too, with future women leaders. Current senior administrators must become like the faithful gardener who takes care of the soil....

To go coed or not to go coed?(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Faced with static or declining enrollments, many of the nation's remaining 63 women's colleges wrestle with the idea of admitting males. For some, it's a crap shoot. Chestnut Hill College, a 79-year-old Roman Catholic liberal arts college...

Follow your North Star to find the right job for you.
August 1, 2003... Looking for a new job is hard work and you have to prepare, prepare, prepare," says consultant Suzanne Forsyth, who was director of human resources at the American Council on Education for 24 years. Her workshop on "Navigating and...

Teaching accounting by distance ed: is it effective?(In Her Own Words)
August 1, 2003... Distance education has been exploding on campuses nationwide, an especially good alternative for women. The U.S. Education Department reported 56% of two- and four-year schools offered distance ed courses in 2000-2001, up from 44% three years...

Women change the model in campus philanthropy.
August 1, 2003... Researchers estimate that by the year 2052, $41 trillion will transfer from one generation to the next, an event expected to usher in a golden age of philanthropy. That time may have already begun. According to the Women's Philanthropy...

Top development strategies for students affairs leaders.
August 1, 2003... Half of the women who go into student development administration leave the field within five years. Pay is too low, spouses relocate--women leave for many well-researched reasons. Dr. Terisa Remelius, judicial affairs officer at Saint Louis...

Successes and barriers to black women administrators.(Part III of III on Black Women in the Academy)
August 1, 2003... Why do some black administrators in predominantly white schools succeed, while others do not? To answer this question, in 2001 I conducted a study on the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that impact the successes and barriers...

Practical tips for new presidential assistants.
August 1, 2003... Of some fifty people at a two-hour workshop for new presidential assistants in February 2003, all but six were women. Women don't monopolize PA positions--in fact, it's about 50-50--but they may be more open to help. PAs Donna Heinzman of...

How to avoid pregnancy discrimination on campus.(In Her Own Words)
August 1, 2003... Treatment of pregnant workers on campus is an important issue. According to U.S. Census Bureau, more than 46% of the workforce is women, of whom more than 80% will have a child. For both employees and administrators on campus, knowing the law...

Selling the house: the last piece of the puzzle.(The Last Laugh)
August 1, 2003... When I happily signed an offer to purchase my new condo townhouse in October 2002, my eyes were on the waterfront pier and my heart was full of joy. Little did I know that the other half of the equation, selling my home of 25 years, would be a...