Women in Higher Education articles from December 2004

Women in Higher Education archives from December 2004

How can lifelong mentoring help to develop leaders?
December 1, 2004... "We all, from time to time, find ourselves in the role of mentoring and being mentored," said Dr. Barbara Curry, a professor in the college of human services, education and public policy at the University of Delaware. "Mentoring is common,...

Canadian women gain in Research Chairs.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Women received more than a third of appointments as prestigious Canada Research Chairs last month, after bitter complaints of gender bias over women receiving only 17% of previous appointments. "We're not surprised at the increase because...

Women are majority of med school applicants.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... For the fall of 2004 women made up more than half of the applicants to medical schools in the United States, 50.4%. It's the second year in a row of an increase in the total number of applicants, and of the majority being women, according...

High court to rule on Title IX retaliation.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about whether Title IX allows people seeking relief from retaliation to file lawsuits. The case involves a former high school girls' basketball coach in Alabama who claims he was fired after...

Former Fresno associate AD sues for bias.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Diane Milutinovich warned the AD at California State University Fresno that the athletics program was violating Title IX in its treatment of female athletes. It was cutting women's sports, leaving assistant coaching jobs vacant and not...

Colleges test frosh on alcohol facts, usage.(NEWSWATCH)(AlcoholEdu)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The number one party school, according to last year's Princeton Review, has added another test for first-year students new to campus. The University of Colorado at Boulder is making its 5,100 freshmen take a three-hour online alcohol awareness...

Can't calculate the costs of athletics?(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... It may be impossible to determine exactly how much colleges really spend on sports, according to a panel of experts who recently testified before the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Groups governing sports,...

Campus sex magazines proliferate.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... At Boston University MA, senior Alecia Oleyourryk is starting her own sex magazine. "We want to turn people on, and we're not afraid to call it pornography," she said. The first issue of Boink will hit stands in January if they can raise the...

Parents to sue wells college over coed plan.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Families of students at Wells College NY who are unhappy with the school's decision to admit men are raising money to pursue legal action against the college's board of trustees. The group is going under the name of Wells College Parents...

Med school agrees to continue support of breast cancer survivors in research study.(NEWSWATCH)(Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... The Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science IL has reached a tentative agreement with 50 women who sued the school for alleged breach of contract and fraud after it discontinued a study of a cancer vaccine. According to the...

Police chief quits as faculty after remarks.(NEWSWATCH)(John Fechko)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... A police chief resigned from teaching classes at Cuyahoga Community College OH after a female cadet accused him of asking her, in front of a class, for sex. John Fechko, chief of police in Seven Hills OH, resigned the same day the student...

Sorority costs included in divorce pact.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Divorced parents with students in college may have to pay for more than books and tuition as part of their child-support obligations, according to a recent ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court. "A college education is not limited to what is...

Schools still shortchange women athletes.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... There was little increase in participation in women's athletics compared to their male counterparts in the 2002-2003 year, according to the new NCAA Gender-Equity Report. The most recent report shows that women's and men's athletics...

Project increases program assistants' value on campus.(Program Assistant Professional Development Program)
December 1, 2004... "You are no better than the people working for you" is true on campus as well as elsewhere. Near the bottom of the staff hierarchy, program assistants are often under-appreciated and over-worked. But without them, programs wouldn't run...

Looking for a new 'Dr. Right' to lead HERS.
December 1, 2004... Yep, there's big shoes to fill in Denver. Dr. Cynthia Secor, who has taken the HERS organization from its start 32 years ago to being the premiere source of professional development for women in higher education, plans to retire next year....

Plan to be a mom? Consider where to take a job.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
December 1, 2004... I am in the unusual position of being a tenured female economics professor with four children. I had my first baby three years after completing my PhD, the next a few years later, the third during the year of my tenure decision, and the fourth...

Making the journey from vision to voice.
December 1, 2004... In Talking Back, bel hooks wrote, "It was in the world of women talk (the men were often silent, often absent) that was born in me the craving to speak, to have a voice, and not just any voice but one that could be identified as...

Process + product = successful meetings.
December 1, 2004... Holding an oxygen mask suspended from the ceiling airplane-style, the man at the head of the table said, "And should there be a sudden loss of consciousness during this meeting..." With that cartoon, Karen Showers opened her October 2004...

Walt Disney Company.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Jane Adams, VP for government relations at the Walt Disney Company, moves to VP for university relations at the University of Florida.

Colorado College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Susan A. Ashley, professor of history at Colorado College, becomes the college's first woman dean of the college and faculty.

Hawkeye Community College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Bettsey Barhorst, president of Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo IA, becomes president of Madison Area Technical College in Madison WI on January 15.

Division of Continuing Education.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Patricia A. Book, associate VP for outreach and executive director of the Division of Continuing Education at Pennsylvania State U, moves to VP for regional development at Kent State University OH.

Jefferson Community College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Mary Etta Fisher, dean of student affairs at Jefferson Community College KY, becomes VP for student affairs at Central Florida Community College.

Kaludis Consulting DC.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Lynn M. Gangone, VP of Maryland Independent College and University Association and former executive director of NAWE, moves to VP of Kaludis Consulting DC.

Heald College system.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Jean Hastie, corporate director of student success at Heald College system CA, moves to VP and chief academic officer of the system.

Portland Community College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Joan Hayward, dean of medical technology and science at Portland Community College OR, becomes campus director of Heald College's Portland campus.

Barnard College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Allison Kimmich, director of precollege programs at Barnard College NY, becomes executive director of the National Women's Studies Association at College Park MD.

University of New Orleans.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Robin Martin, assistant coach of women's basketball at the University of New Orleans LA, becomes the first female AD and head women's basketball coach at Dillard University LA.

Georgia State University.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Robin Morris, professor of psychology at Georgia State University, becomes VP for research there.

California Community College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Victoria P. Morrow, executive VP in California Community College's chancellor's office, moves to president of Skyline College CA.

Concordia College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Sabine O'Hara, VP for academic affairs and dean of Concordia College MN, will become the first female president at Roanoke College VA.

Creighton University.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Ruth B. Purtilo, director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University NE, will fill the new position of professor and chair of the ethics initiative at the MGH Institute of Health Professionals MA.

University of Akron.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Charlene K. Reed, assistant dean for administration in the College of Education at the University of Akron OH, becomes secretary to the board and senior assistant to the president at Kent State University OH.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Janet Begin Richardson, dean of student life and acting VP for student affairs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA, moves to VP for student affairs there.

Santa Monica College.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Piedad F. Robertson, president of Santa Monica College CA, will become president of the Education Commission of the States, a non-profit, bipartisan group that helps state leaders set policy, on February 1.

University of British Columbia.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Dr. Indira Samarsekera, VP of research at the University of British Columbia, will become the first female president of the University of Alberta in Canada.

The real cost of eliminating directors of women's athletics.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
December 1, 2004... In 1980, when the NCAA first recognized the potential to profit from women's sports, a trend began to combine women's and men's athletics programs. The men's directors became ADs and the women became expendable. This nationwide movement...

Biased GRE test limits women applicants.
December 1, 2004... Standardized tests are supposed to give admissions committees an objective measure to evaluate applicants from varying academic environments. Used with the intention of leveling the playing field and assuring fairness in the admissions...

Preparing women for careers in coaching athletics.
December 1, 2004... With the Title IX paving the way, more female college students are participating in varsity athletics. But career opportunities for women in athletics have not increased. In fact, the number of female head coaches of women's teams has...

The holidays: it's all about the tree.(THE LAST LAUGH)(keeping a Christmas tree)
December 1, 2004... Living in Wisconsin amid the birch and pine trees puts on a lot of pressure during the holiday season concerning the apparatus selected to hold one's ornaments. The "blue" state that delivers the tree to the White House some years,...