Women in Higher Education articles from July 2003

Women in Higher Education archives from July 2003

Tips on how to turn inspiration into action.
July 1, 2003... You're just home from a conference filled with wonderful new ideas. You've picked up a brilliant suggestion from your latest issue of WIHE. You're excited by a book about how to transform higher education. Your colleagues nod politely, "That's...

Wrestler's suit against title IX dismissed. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A U.S. district court has dismissed a lawsuit by the National Wrestling Coaches Association and others claiming rules enforcing Title IX discriminate against male athletes. Judge Emmet C. Sullivan in June ruled that changing the rules would...

Varsity wrestling for women? (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... With women's wrestling debuting as an Olympic sport in 2004, maybe the 4,000 women wrestlers in the United States should get a team of their own. In football too. Not only would such teams help schools comply with Title IX, they would end...

Fewer females lead catholic colleges. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... With the trend toward admitting men to formerly all-female Catholic colleges and hiring lay leaders has come a decrease in the percentage of women presidents. Once more than half of Catholic colleges were founded by nuns, and most female...

Kansas to regulate sex harassment. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... State universities in Kansas have until January 2004 to adopt policies on sexual harassment as part of a budget cleanup bill signed in May by Governor Kathleen Sebelius. The provision was inserted by state senator Susan Wagle (R-Wichita),...

W. Ann Reynolds sues Alabama for ouster. (Newswatch).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Claiming she was fired as the president of the University of Alabama in Birmingham in September 2001 because the system's chancellor "did not want to continue to have to deal with a forceful woman," W. Ann Reynolds sued the system's board of...

Knight panel reconvenes on college athletics. (Newswatch).(Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... It's time to take another look at reform, says the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Their 1991 and 2001 reports helped college presidents gain more control of their academic programs. A June meeting of many of the...

Air Force Academy issues new sex policies. (Newswatch).
July 1, 2003... Rocked by a sexual assault scandal that involved at least 56 female cadets reporting rapes, the Air Force Academy released a new policy in June that creates a team to handle sexual assault cases. But it fails to guarantee the confidentiality of...

Fashion police rank campuses. (Newswatch).
July 1, 2003... The May l issue of Women's Wear Daily focused on college campuses and included a ranking of schools, in which brand name clothing counted more than degree programs. Sophisticated taste in student clothing and quality fashion and retail...

Retreat to facilitate 'the courage to teach'. (Newswatch).
July 1, 2003... Followers of Parker Palmer may be interested in attending a five-day retreat dedicated to helping explore the intersection of their inner work and outer world. The Courage to Teach Formation Principles and Practices Retreat will run...

Spirituality project to assess student development.
July 1, 2003... Know thyself" may be the maxim of higher education, .but little on campus is designed to help students do it. The inner life is important but largely ignored in an academy that honors the objective and impersonal. Questions of meaning and...

What's up with title IX?
July 1, 2003... Thirty-one years ago this month on June 27, 1972, Title IX changed the nature of public education in the United States by requiring that educational programs funded by the federal government serve women as well as men. That outrageous...

Women in leadership must symbolize success.
July 1, 2003... One hundred days into her job as the first woman principal at Canada's McGill University, Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum is one of 13 women heading Canadian colleges, universities and technical schools. In her early days on the job, a male...

How to create culture change from the middle up.
July 1, 2003... Administrators in work/life programs traditionally work from the top down or the bottom up, according to Sherry Wilson, work/life and employee assistance program director, and Sam Hester, work/life coordinator, at the University of Texas Health...

Networks provide support to overcome the odds: part II of III on black women in the academy. (Moveable Type).
July 1, 2003... By Timeka L. Thomas Rashid, coordinator of community services and residence hail director at Otterbein University OH. Many say the women's movement is over. Is there no longer a struggle for women to earn equal pay? Is the need gone to...

Sexual harassment in athletics breaks the trust.
July 1, 2003... Colleges and universities have an obligation to act when they know, knew or should have known that sexual harassment has occurred," said Dr. Paula Rudolph, Title IX and sexual harassment officer at the University of California-Santa Barbara....

Gendered Futures in Higher Education. (Books on my Nightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Edited by Becky Ropers-Huilman A collection of nine articles by women with familiar names, the book has interesting essays on what we should learn from women's colleges, future prospects for women faculty negotiating work and family life,...

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman's Poems. (Books on my Mightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Katherine Graham, Esq. Published in 2003 by Moxie Books NC, 118 pages. PB is $15.95. Combining fresh air and moxie, this collection of essays and poems by a woman who finally learned that being good got her nowhere screams out of...

Living History. (Books on my Nightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Hillary Rodham Clinton Published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster, 562 pages. HC is $28.00. Likely to be our first female President, she offers a sanitized version of her life story, from a distinctly middle-class upbringing in the...

Angels. (Books on my Nightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Marian Keyes A belly-laughing beach read, this novel details how a good girl in Dublin decides that with both her marriage of nine years and solid-but-boring job down the tubes, she might as well take some time off and visit a friend in...

Dead Ringer. (Books on my Nightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Lisa Scottoline It's in the series about maverick Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato, whose all-female law firm takes its first class-action suit, which eventually results in murder and mayhem. Hers are such provocative legal thrillers...

The Corporal Works of Murder. (Books on my Nightstand this Summer).(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Sister Carol Anne O'Marie Selected by the Mary Helen Conroy, who handles fulfillment services and Career Connections for WIHE, this is part of a series whose protagonist is a nun in her late 60s, also named Mary Helen. It's rather...

Tips on how to be a senior administrator... and a mom.
July 1, 2003... Dr. Frances Lucas Taucher, president of Milisaps College in Jackson MS, knows the value of hearing other women's stories: "They bring such strength, solace and magnificent drama into our lives." Taucher was one of six senior administrators with...

Dickens wenniger 1987-2003. (The Last Laugh).
July 1, 2003... Putting my little black dog Dickens to sleep on June 2 was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. A pet can be the glue that holds the family together. Often when my teenager and I weren't speaking, she'd comment, "Dickens wants you...