Women in Higher Education articles from January 2009

Women in Higher Education archives from January 2009

Schedule creep, stigma push women out of the academy.(Joan C. Williams's 'Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It')
January 1, 2009... "Glass ceiling" and "chilly climate" are no longer the best metaphors for key barriers that repel highly educated women from university careers. The terms stigma and schedule creep target the problem more clearly, Dr. Joan C. Williams said in...

Women again lead growth in U.S. doctorates.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... U.S. higher education institutions granted more doctorates in 2007 than ever before. Female doctoral recipients increased 6.9% from 2006 to 2007, compared with 6.2 % for males, according to the Survey of Earned Doctorates. Science and...

Obama taps many women as key leaders.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... President-elect Barack Obama reportedly has selected many women for key roles in his new administration: * Lisa Jackson, EPA administrator. She is a former New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection commissioner and will be the...

Even elites suffer economic downturn.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Harvard University is freezing faculty and non-union staff salaries, suspending most searches for tenure-track and tenured professors and restricting faculty hiring in the face of a 27% drop in its endowment from $37 to $27 billion. Yale...

Larry Summers reborn as economic leader.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... President-elect Barack Obama has appointed former Harvard president Larry Summers to lead the National Economic Council. Summers left Harvard two years ago amid tiffs with faculty and a statement alienating women. In 2005, Summers...

Bryn Mawr mulls a campus in Abu Dhabi.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Courted by officials in the oil-rich Middle East, leaders at Bryn Mawr College PA are considering becoming the first U.S. women's college to set up a campus there, but some faculty and students are leery. President Jane McAuliffe, an...

Women just 4% of MIT's new tenured profs.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Despite an effort to boost the status of women on campus, only one of 25 MIT faculty members granted tenure this year is a woman. Women are now about 16% of MIT's tenured faculty, compared with 10.5% a decade ago. MIT President Susan...

COACHE: women profs less satisfied.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Women on the tenure-track report less clarity and satisfaction than men, according to a new report by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at Harvard University, based on responses from more than 8,500 participants...

AAUP supports ex-adjunct at North Idaho.(NEWSWATCH)(American Association of University Professors supports Jessica Bryan)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is accusing North Idaho College of failure to follow due process when it fired an adjunct English professor in 2007. AAUP rules say an adjunct who has worked for at least three terms...

Report cites abuse of adjunct faculty.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Adjunct faculty are teaching almost 50% of undergrad courses on campuses, but they face inferior working conditions, according to the report "Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward." The American...

1970s investment in disadvantaged women pays off in higher earnings for families too.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Two sociology professors at the City University of New York's Graduate Center who tracked nearly 2,000 disadvantaged women at CUNY have won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education. Paul Attewell and David Lavin followed women who entered...

Online learners report deeper engagement.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Compared with their on-campus peers, online learners report deeper approaches to and engagement with learning, according to a recent Indiana University study. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collected info from 380,000...

Males need social support to attend college.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... For those who wonder "Where are the men?" among college students, new research shows an especially strong need for social support to overcome a deviant gene associated with poor impulse control in men. A study examined genes and survey...

Rutgers cuts AD for lavish spending.(NEWSWATCH)(Rutgers University president Richard McCormick has asked athletic director Robert Mulcahy to step down)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... In response to increasing scrutiny over a lack of fiscal oversight, Rutgers University President Richard McCormick has asked AD Robert Mulcahy to step down. Mulcahy, AD since 1998, signed the football coach to multimillion dollar contracts...

Study abroad programs draw more women.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... While the number of American college students participating in study abroad programs continues to grow, their 2-to-l female-to-male participation ratio has remained about the same for a decade, according to Institute of International Education...

Student-teacher loses appeal of dismissal.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... A federal judge ruled against a former student-teacher who was denied her teaching degree just days before graduation, after school officials found a photo of her costumed as a drunken sailor on her MySpace account. Pennsylvania's...

Ex-dental student wins $1.7 million award.(NEWSWATCH)(Alissa Zwick)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... A federal jury awarded more than $1.7 million to a former University of Michigan dental student who claimed she was kicked out of school after being caught in the middle of a feud between a dean and faculty members. Alissa Zwick said that...

Career gender gap costs average $434,000.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Over a 40-year career, the average full-time female employee will lose about $434,000 as a result of the gender pay gap, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund's new report, "Lifetime Losses: The Career Wage Gap." The...

ACE reports on older college students.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... Older students are more likely to attend a community college and are often unaware of perks for older students, according to a new report by the American Council on Education (ACE). Highlights from the "Mapping New Directions" report: ...

NCAA: be honest, blame cuts on finances.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... When cash-strapped colleges cut some of their male athletics teams in the near future, NCAA President Myles Brand urged them to be honest and cite the slow economy rather than blaming Title IX. "My expectation is that over the next year or...

New Harvard program helps senior leaders establish new careers to improve society.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... It started this fall with only 14 student-fellows, but a new year-long experimental program has the potential to change the world through social engineering. The Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative is designed to help highly successful...

Smell the differences between campuses.(NEWSWATCH)
January 1, 2009... In addition to wearing school colors to visually support your team, a fragrance company is selling perfumes and colognes so you can show your support through scent too. Masik Collegiate Fragrances aims to create distinct fragrances that...

Errata in the December 2008 issue.(NEWSWATCH)(Correction notice)
January 1, 2009... Pictures of Women's Center leaders Jane Goettsch and Kathleen Holgerson were reversed. In the Newswatch report on the voluntary NCAA policy on pregnant athletes, the co-author was Elizabeth A. Sorensen, and the policy does apply to male...

Voices of women chief information officers.
January 1, 2009... Women who serve as their school's chief information officer (CIO) confront sexism on two fronts, said Dr. Marilyn Drury. "Not only do they have hurdles placed in their pathways from the male-dominated environment of higher education, but also...

Invest in social capital for career benefits as leaders.
January 1, 2009... What do bowling leagues, church choirs and gangs have in common? They're all examples of relationships that build social capital for participants. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his 2000 book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of...

Plugging the brain drain of women in the STEM fields.
January 1, 2009... News flash: Women are actually achieving or exceeding parity in earning undergraduate and terminal degrees in the fields of science, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yet their numbers in the...

Factors predicting women presidents at top research universities: part III on women leaders at research universities.(IN HIS OWN WORDS)
January 1, 2009... The study of college and university female presidents generates considerable interst among higher education researchers and commentators in a variety of forums. This report provides general findings from both my 2003 dissertation at the...

Tips on how to do a values-based job search.
January 1, 2009... Whether you're planning your personal career strategy or serving on a search committee, a "placement vision" will guide you toward the best mutual fit. Well-matched values matter even more than details of the resume or job description,...

Beyond Women's Studies: feminism in academic leaders.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
January 1, 2009... For 15 years my personal and professional identity had centered on feminism and Women's Studies, first as a graduate student and then as a Women's Studies faculty member and scholar and finally as a department chair of a Women's Studies Program...

Women on the move.
January 1, 2009... * Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston moves from director of the career center at the University of Maryland at College Park to VP for student life at Ohio State University. * Dr. Cynthia Azari moves from vice chancellor of work-force development and...

Nourishing the spirits of women leaders.(Sustaining Our Spirits: Women Leaders Thriving for Today and Tomorrow)(Book review)
January 1, 2009... Dr. Darlyne Bailey is a recognized leader in higher education. Assistant to the president at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, she was founding dean of its college of education and human development and before that, academic VP and...

'Waste not, want not' isn't a bad idea these days.(THE LAST LAUGH)
January 1, 2009... Today's economy rewards those who repair, resell, recycle and restore, not those who senselessly consume. Genetic roots Growing up in my family, recycling was a way of life. My parents had survived the Great Depression, and my father...