Women in Higher Education articles from December 2005

Women in Higher Education archives from December 2005

Top 10 leadership tips for women on campus.
December 1, 2005... Ed. note: Dr. Vicki Lord Larson, who received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Women in Educational Leadership at its fall conference, gave tips on leadership after more than 30 years in higher education. She is interim...

Harvard increases tenure offers to women.(Harvard University )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Harvard University MA has finally increased the number of job offers made to female professors, for the first time since Lawrence Summers became president in 2001. In a 17-page letter written to the Harvard community and posted on its Web...

Yale ups the ante on hiring diverse faculty.(Yale University )
December 1, 2005... Not content seeking just improvement, the president and provost at Yale University CT announced a seven-year plan to hire more diverse faculty with precise quantitative goals. In an email to faculty, they announced that over seven years...

University of Virginia 'gets it' on diversity.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Its Web site features a photo of a student-age female in front of a door with a note "I will not tolerate intolerance." With 23,000 students at its flagship Charlottesville campus, the University of Virginia has hired three new administrators...

Justice Department to sue over fellowships.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Southern Illinois University over three small graduate school scholarship programs aimed at women and minorities, claiming the programs are discriminatory. The school has "engaged in a pattern or...

UC provost M.R.C. Greenwood resigns.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... The University of California's shining female star abruptly quit as provost last month, days after the system starting investigating possible favoritism in the hiring of her son and the promotion of a friend with whom she had owned rental...

NCAA urged to stick to its standards.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... Members of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics recently expressed worry that the NCAA may become too lenient in enforcing its new, stricter academic standards. In the next two months, more than 400 colleges are...

The costs of hazing escalate.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Fraternity members and student athletes beware: Hazing is bringing serious repercussions on campus and in court. * McGill University, which fields Canada's oldest university football team, has forfeited the rest of its football season...

Supporters rally to Save Douglass College.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... A Rutgers University NJ proposal to dismantle one of the nation's last public women's colleges is meeting a lot of resistance. Alumnae of Douglass College are leading a highly organized "Save Douglass" campaign that has generated thousands of...

MBA programs need female role models.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... Why do women make up more than half of today's students in law, medicine, dentistry and vet school, but only 30% of today's MBAs? The answer is business schools' lack of female role models, according to a recent study done by Catalyst, a...

Spelman women still target hip-hop.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... Spelman College hosted a weeklong discussion about hip-hop and its negative portrayal of women in early November. Perhaps the nation's most famous African-American women's college, Spelman has been drawing attention to the music industry...

Men join women in seeking 'Mrs.' degree.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... Time was when schools created "home ec" departments to justify educating women at all. Today many male students are pursuing what was once referred to as the "Mrs." degree. Schools across the country are reporting them in their family and...

Military school to accept women, finally.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The country's last all-male public military college is going coed. Valley Forge Military College in Pennsylvania will open its doors to women next fall. Leaders expect women to make up 20% of cadets within five years. At The Citadel in...

Vatican leader expects 'evangelical pruning'.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Leaders of Roman Catholic colleges got a glimpse into the new pope's education agenda recently during a speech made by a senior Vatican official at the University of Notre Dame IN. Archbishop Michael Miller, secretary of the Vatican's...

New Jersey colleges combine to list jobs.(NEWSWATCH)
December 1, 2005... Imitating a California initiative to offer jobs at a number of schools on one Web site, 28 New Jersey colleges and universities came together in November to launch a Web site offering more than 1,700 campus job openings. The New Jersey...

How women administrators can increase their numbers.
December 1, 2005... Women earn more than half the U.S. graduate degrees but hold only about one-fifth of upper-level jobs as higher ed administrators. That's a huge discrepancy. Past and present women administrators have a responsibility to do something about it,...

Toward a new identity framework for women leaders.
December 1, 2005... "Leaders are not found in formulas," said Dr. Barbara Curry. "The leader persona is bound up in an individual's process of becoming." Essentially, leaders are not born. They are made and influenced by their experiences. And Curry, a...

Supporting LGBTQ students at Catholic schools.(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered)
December 1, 2005... Why on earth would a student who self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning (LGBTQ) choose to attend a Catholic college or university, given the church's condemnation of homosexuality? It's not that simple,...

How to keep joy in life and work.
December 1, 2005... You can love your work and still have a life. Panelists at the NACWAA convention in Kansas City MO in October shared tips in the session "Don't Let Them Steal Your Joy!" * Dr. Jane Wood, director of the Women's Center at the University of...

Negotiating: why women don't ask and what to do.
December 1, 2005... Women graduate students trooped into economics professor Dr. Linda Babcock's office at Carnegie Mellon University PA, where she directed the PhD program. They wanted to know why men students had been assigned to teach classes, while the women...

'Connected' classrooms support female learning.
December 1, 2005... Most classrooms are organized around the "separate self" theory, said Sandra Altena, director of residence life at Dordt College in Sioux City IA. This theory posits that until one has "arrived" at a self, she's really not ready to enter a...

Deb Barshafsky.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Deb Barshafsky, assistant to the president and director of the office of institutional research at the Medical College of Georgia, becomes VP for decision support.

Janet Dennis.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Janet Dennis, director of development and stewardship at Point Park University PA, moves to VP for development at La Roche College PA.

Dr. Nancy J. Dunn.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Nancy J. Dunn, VP for finance and administration and CFO at the World Wildlife Fund, moves to VP of finance and administration at the University of Idaho on January 30.

Dr. Joan Hendricks.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Joan Hendricks, professor of small animal medicine and chief of the critical care section in the department of clinical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, becomes dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Robin McDermott.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Robin McDermott, director of recruitment and admission and interim VP for student affairs at Albany State University GA, moved to VP for enrollment management and student affairs at Lake Erie College OH.

Dr. Betty Sue McGarvy.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Betty Sue McGarvy, provost of Baptist College of Health Sciences TN, has become president.

Michelle Releford.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Michelle Releford, VP of student services at Atlanta Technical College, moves to VP of student development and enrollment management at Pasco-Hernando Community College FL.

Dr. Peggy Valentine.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Peggy Valentine, associate dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences at Howard University DC, becomes dean of the School of Health Sciences at Winston-Salem State University NC on January 1.

Dr. Jo Young Switzer.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Jo Young Switzer moved from VP and dean of academic affairs to president of Manchester College IN.

Janet C. Winniford.(Women on the Move)
December 1, 2005... Janet C. Winniford, associate VP of student affairs at Texas A&M University, moves to VP of student affairs at Weber State University UT.

Lighter lessons in leadership.
December 1, 2005... A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing hers when the doorbell rings. She quickly raps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she opens her...

Saint Mary's women use strategies to change a campus.
December 1, 2005... According to its Web site, Saint Mary's College IN--the sister school created to serve women who could not attend the then all-male Notre Dame University--"challenges women to imagine and explore, to learn and grow, to lead and make a...

Maintaining the well-being of today's student athlete.
December 1, 2005... As schools weigh how athletics fit into the educational model, the well-being of today's student athletes is becoming an increasingly important topic. The task of dealing with this issue seems to fall mainly in the laps of women...

Charting a legacy: the early deans of women.
December 1, 2005... Help Wanted: One woman with a PhD and a publication record. Must be able to do scholarship, teach and hold her own with the faculty. Candidate must be fairly attractive, know which fork to use, know what to wear and be able to...

Charting your legacy? Think of your values.(THE LAST LAUGH)
December 1, 2005... It seems like every other article I read or edit refers to the need for women to identify their values and act on them. Those of us with snow on the rooftop (unless we dye it) get frequent reminders that there may be more days behind us than in...