Women in Higher Education articles from March 2009

Women in Higher Education archives from March 2009

Scholarly writing is a SNAP for Alabama junior faculty.(Support Network for Assistant/Associate Professors)
March 1, 2009... What do junior faculty and the contestants in the television show Survivor have in common? Both have a serious risk of getting "voted off the island." Think the comparison between academe and reality TV is overstated? Consider tenure, in...

Something for everybody in stimulus bill.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Congress has proposed spending $787 billion of our dollars, including funds for students and colleges. Students would see a $500 increase in the maximum Pell grant, and many low-income families would receive a $2,500 annual tax credit to...

Women to benefit from new equal pay law.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... President Barack Obama jump-started his administration in late January by signing an equal pay bill into law, making it easier for women to fight discrimination at work. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act salutes a 70-year-old...

AAC&U reports status of campus women.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... The Association of American Colleges & Universities has released a new study, A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education, an extensive look into the facts and figures of women on campus. The report draws together divergent...

ACE survey: few CAOs wannabe president.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Chief academic officers--40% of whom are women--have traditionally been the most likely to move up to president at American colleges and universities. But a new survey indicates that most like it just where they are, thank you, and have no...

MUW name change to improve its viability.(NEWSWATCH)(Mississippi University for Women)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Truth in advertising is coming to The Mississippi University for Women, which has been admitting men since 1982 and currently allows hundreds of them to take classes. Now it's about to capitalize on the notion. President Claudia A. Limbert...

Tulane threatens to sue over 'Newcomb'.(NEWSWATCH)(Tulane University, Newcomb College for Women)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Ever since Tulane University LA merged its donor-funded Newcomb College for Women in 2005, the college's alumni and supporters have caused an uproar. "Our goal is to restore Newcomb as the coordinate women's college of Tulane University,"...

Faculty diss online learning, seek extra pay.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... In a survey of more than 10,000 faculty members at 67 schools across the country, more than 70% felt that learning from online instruction was not as effective as face-to-face classroom learning. Even among faculty who had taught online,...

Fast-track degrees speed MDs to work.(NEWSWATCH)(new version of medical education)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... A new kind of medical school at the University of California at Merced--one that takes years off the usual path to a medical degree--is the goal of John Garamendi, California's lieutenant governor. "We have a desperate need for more doctors,...

Study abroad programs get Standards.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... International studies programs are red hot in today's global economy. But when experienced study-abroad administrators are already booked and schools rely on faculty to supervise the trips, many have gotten into trouble. For example, last...

Spelman sends high ratio of blacks to PhDs.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Spelman College, the women's HBCU in Atlanta, has ranked second in the nation in sending the most black graduates on to PhD programs in science and math from 1997 to 2006. Not too shabby, considering that the top ranking went to a college that...

California grad students see research universities as hostile to family life.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Family first? After generations of grad students have accepted conditions of servitude, today's grad students are dismayed at seeing the quality of life for campus academics. Many are questioning their career choice. A study of PhD...

Engineering schools need extreme makeover.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... "The way that engineering is traditionally taught, it's very abstract," explained Laurence J. Jacobs, associate dean at Georgia Tech. That's unappealing to female students, who "look to solve problems that are of help to society." Small...

Penn plans no frills, accelerated college.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Responding to today's economy, the Pennsylvania State Board of Education is proposing a new kind of college, one with lower costs and "no frills." It would offer classes year round and graduates would earn bachelor's degrees. The...

'Obama effect' inspires blacks students.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... The monumental event of Barack Obama being elected the first African American President of the United States has led many black students across the country to have more confidence in their academic abilities. A study done during the 2008...

New students more passionate over politics.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Politics was the passion of students reporting in the annual survey of college first-year students; 35.6% said they discussed politics frequently during the last year, the highest percentage reported since another election year, 1968. The...

Pat Summitt coaches to 1,000 wins.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... On February 5, 2009, Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, already the winningest coach in women's or men's college basketball history, broke the 1,000 win barrier. By defeating the Georgia Bulldogs 73-43, her Lady Vols secured Summitt's 1,000th...

Leadership program helps women in athletics.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... College athletics desperately needs guidance by women leaders, so two heavy hitters in athletics are making it happen. The Women's Leadership Symposium in Intercollegiate Athletics is an educational conference available to all women in...

Women's athletics mourns loss of Kay Yow.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Kay Yow, iconic coach of the North Carolina State women's basketball Wolfpack, packed many accomplishments into her 38-year coaching career that ended in January after a 22-year battle with cancer. She coached her teams to 737 wins, four...

OWHE to survey needs of women veterans.(NEWSWATCH)
March 1, 2009... Women veterans returning to higher education may need help to overcome their own particular form of posttraumatic stress disorder, said Dr. Donna Burns Philips, who directs the Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on...

The Athena Factor: keeping wise women happy.
March 1, 2009... Pre-college programs encourage girls to consider a science major. The percent of science, engineering and technology (SET) PhDs going to women has risen steadily, now at 46% in biological sciences and 31% in chemistry. They're putting in years...

Negative metaphors can become excuses for inaction.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... Words have power to harm or to heal. Ask anyone who's been victim to a bully's verbal or written abuse. Dr. Catherine Morgan is seeking attention to the words used to describe women's leadership experiences. Morgan, the dean of the school...

Neural pathways to change take the high road.(prefrontal cortex)
March 1, 2009... Women have smaller brains than men but more gray matter to useful for thinking. Former Harvard University President Larry Summers got into well-deserved trouble for suggesting that innate differences explain the underrepresentation of women in...

Online courses need feminist teaching styles.
March 1, 2009... Students like online courses for the flexibility they offer around a busy life. Schools like them because they save on the costs of bricks and mortar. But can online courses match traditional classrooms for educational quality? That depends on...

Sheroes: mothers make great leaders, naturally.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
March 1, 2009... The 19th century poet William Ross Wallace wrote, "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." His words should empower working mothers everywhere by forcing a re-conceptualization of them as leaders. If a leader is...

Latest knowledge, best practices for women students.(MOVEABLE TYPE)
March 1, 2009... In our August 2007 issue we alerted readers to the forthcoming Stylus book Most College Students Are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy, edited by Dr. Jeanie K. Allen, Dr. Susan J. Bracken and Dr. Diane R. Dean. It came out...

Leadership through email: standards and perspectives.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
March 1, 2009... Email is one of the primary sources of communicative documents of our digital age. Each email is a miniature story, as well as a small part of a much larger whole. Though small, emails have tremendous power. Unlike the proverbial thick...

See you in San Francisco?(THE LAST LAUGH)(National Senior Games)(Column)
March 1, 2009... Just five short months from now in August, tens of thousands of exceptionally fit senior citizens from every state in the nation will descend on the City by the Bay, in testimony to their preference of having their bodies wear out rather than...