Women in Higher Education articles from November 2007

Women in Higher Education archives from November 2007

President recounts her own dance of leadership.
November 1, 2007... In January Dr. DeLois P. Weekes was named president of Clarkson College in Omaha NE, which specializes in nursing and other health professions. That might surprise some who knew her as a college dropout or a kid whose parents just hoped that...

Use Title IX to force cultural shift in STEM?(NEWSWATCH)(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Education leaders testifying before Congress on the dearth of tenured women in science and engineering agreed that cultural changes on campus are needed to overcome existing biases and barriers in hiring women. One idea was to use Title...

Another sex bias suit costs Fresno $3.5 million.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... Fresno State University CA has agreed to pay its former associate AD $3.5 million to settle her sexual discrimination lawsuit against the school. Diane Milutinovich has worked at Fresno State for 27 years. In 2002 she was fired from the...

'The Hillary effect' energizes campus women.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... Campus females are hopeful that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will spur more women into politics, even if Hillary isn't the right candidate for them. With almost 60% of the college population projected to be females by 2014,...

Family-friendly programs gain popularity.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... Little by little, higher education is becoming more family-friendly, not just because it's the right thing to do, but in order to help recruit and retain faculty and students: * A Harvard medical student got an extra hour of break time...

'Keep your rosaries off our ovaries'.(NEWSWATCH)(Women's Studies Organization's freedom of speech case)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Rhode Island College is paying $5,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Women's Studies group claiming the public college violated free-speech rights when it removed their signs that said, "Keep your rosaries off our ovaries." The college's...

NCAA fast tracks rule on pregnant athletes.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... An NCAA cabinet plans to amend bylaws regarding financial aid for pregnant students in response to media stories last spring involving scholarship agreements between coaches and athletes. Athletes at several schools had been forced to choose...

Pacific Women's College to open in Hawaii.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Hawaii's first and only women's college is scheduled to open in fall 2008 in Honolulu. Pacific Women's College will offer professional development classes in 2008 and enroll full-time students in fall 2010. According to president and...

Movement grows to end SAT/ACT mandates.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... Wittenberg University OH is the latest school to make SAT and ACT scores optional in the admissions process, joining the list of more than 750 accredited, degree-granting "test-optional" schools. "The test-optional movement is nearing a...

Academic gender gap starts by age 15.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Differences in study habits, parental expectations and academic performance may explain the gender gap in college enrollment, according to Statistics Canada. The group looked at 19-year-olds in 2003 and found that 23% of men and 39% of...

2001 Colorado rape case set for trial in 2009.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... A lawsuit filed by two women who claim they were raped at a party with University of Colorado football players in 2001 will go to trial in January 2009. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals recently reversed a 2005 ruling that...

Community colleges to retrain retirees.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... The Atlantic Philanthropies gave the American Association of Community Colleges a $3.2 million grant to develop programs to retrain retiring baby boomers to re-enter the workforce. Initially, 15 community colleges will develop programs, with...

Sex suit against UNC's Dorrance to proceed.(NEWSWATCH)(University of North Carolina's Anson Dorrance)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... A sexual harassment case against one of the winningest soccer coaches in NCAA history is set to go to trial following the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case. The 1998 suit against Anson Dorrance, women's soccer coach at the...

Academics or a new U of Memphis stadium.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... In a textbook case pitting athletics against academics, lines are being drawn in the sand at the University of Memphis over a proposed new on-campus football stadium. The issue is pitting athletics supporters against the administration of...

NCAA to hold women's forum at Final Four to discuss image, barriers to advancement.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... The NCAA's Committee on Women's Athletics will hold a "Women in College Sports Forum" in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Final Four this spring in Florida. Organizers like the idea of holding the forum at the Final Four because it is a...

Colleges fudge reports on crime, violence.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Schools aren't accurately reporting crime and violent incidents on campus, according to a new report by 27 state attorneys general. State and federal laws intended to track crime at K-12 and higher ed schools fail to provide adequate...

Flexible strategy succeeds at Med School.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... A change in philosophy and policy at the University of Minnesota Medical School has led to a 22% increase in applications and a higher enrollment rate. With a physician shortage looming, leaders at the medical school changed to a more...

Strategies may remove roadblocks to PhD.(NEWSWATCH)(Doctor of Philosophy)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The lonely, harried dissertator may be a thing of the past if schools pay attention to tips from the Council of Graduate Schools' seven-year project to speed up the PhD process. Representing 480 Canadian and American universities, the...

Faculty feel disconnected from sports, coaches pay, overvalued entertainment.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Professors involved in campus governance at schools with high-profile athletics programs don't feel connected to and don't know much about issues in college sports, according to a national survey of 2,000 tenured or tenure-track respondents in...

What's faculty role in campus athletics?(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Meeting in Washington DC on the heels of the Knight Commission survey of faculty's perception of campus athletics, more than 130 faculty and athletics administrators from the nation's largest universities gathered at the faculty summit on...

'Get a life' and get off her back.(NEWSWATCH)(Janet Dudley-Eshbach )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... After Salisbury University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach posted some vacation photos on a Web site she thought was private, local media sought to embarrass her by displaying them. She immediately apologized and took the photos down. One...

Giving chocolate improves faculty ratings.(NEWSWATCH)
November 1, 2007... Everybody knows that faculty can easily influence students filling out evaluation forms on them, and now a study has confirmed it. In an experiment with 100 students in three different lecture sections taught by the same professor, half the...

Career paths to the top: seven women's stories.
November 1, 2007... Seven women. Seven life stories. One goal: the top. Dr. Linda Timm, the new president of Mount Mary College WI and six of her Milwaukee area peers gathered at the college in September to discuss their career trajectories. Others were Dr....

Dr. Laura Bayless.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Laura Bayless moves from dean of students at Longwood University VA to dean of students at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Dr. Margaretha Bischoff.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Margaretha Bischoff moves from interim to dean of liberal arts and social sciences at South Texas College.

Dr. Carol Colbeck.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Carol Colbeck moves from director of Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education to dean of the graduate school at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Dr. Waded Cruzado-Salas.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Waded Cruzado-Salas moves from dean of the college of arts and sciences at New Mexico State University to executive VP and provost.

Dr. Sharra Durham.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Sharra Durham moves from associate director for leadership at Texas A & M's campus at College Station to VP for student life at Houghton College NY.

Dr. Natalie D. Eddington.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Natalie D. Eddington moves from chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences to dean of the school of pharmacy at the University of Maryland.

Katherine Greysen.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Katherine Greysen moves from director of student services to dean of academic services at Sierra Nevada College NV.

Dr. Jocelyn Harney.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Jocelyn Harney moves from dean of students to VP of enrollment and student affairs at the College of Du Page IL.

Dr. Augusta A. Julian.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Augusta A. Julian moves from president of Maysville Community and Technical College KY since 2001 to president of Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington KY.

Dr. Renu Khator.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Renu Khator, provost at the University of South Florida in Tampa, becomes president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the UH system.

Dr. Anne Kress.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Anne Kress moves from interim to provost and VP of academic affairs at Santa Fe College FL.

Jacqueline R. Menendez.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Jacqueline R. Menendez moves from village manager for Key Biscayne FL to VP of university communications at her alma mater, the University of Miami FL.

Faith D. Maddy.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Faith D. Maddy moves from VP for development at the St. Louis Symphony to VP for development at Weber State University UT.

Dr. Felicia E. McGinty.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Felicia E. McGinty moves from associate VP for student engagement at Penn State at University Park to vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller moves from provost and VP for academic affairs and planning at Southwest Tennessee Community College to chancellor at SOWELA Technical Community College in Lake Charles LA.

Dr. Shirley Mullen.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Shirley Mullen becomes the first female president of her alma mater, Houghton College NY, moving from provost at Westmont College in Santa Barbara CA.

Dr. Diane Obinger.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Diane Obinger moves from VP to president and CEO of EDUCAUSE on January 1, 2008.

Dr. Molly A. Parkhill.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Molly A. Parkhill moves from dean of continuing education to president at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock NC.

Dr. Joanne Passaro.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Joanne Passaro moves from interim VP for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Point Park University PA to provost and VP for academic affairs at Carroll College WI.

Susan H. Pettyjohn.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Susan H. Pettyjohn moves from associate VP for university development at the College of William and Mary VA to vice chancellor for university development at Appalachian State University NC.

Mary A. Ragland.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Mary A. Ragland moves from coordinator of admissions and marketing at the University of Florida to dean of student services at the Troy University AL campus in Phenix city.

Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid moves from provost and executive VP at Roosevelt University in Chicago to president of Saint Joseph College CT

Doreen Knapp Riley.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Doreen Knapp Riley moves from director of foundation programs for the Association of Governing Boards in DC to VP for university advancement at John Carroll University OH.

Dr. Cheryl L. Roberts.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Cheryl L. Roberts moves from academic VP at South Seattle Community College to president of Chemeketa Community College OR.

Dr. Ileana Rodriguez-Garcia.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Ileana Rodriguez-Garcia moves from professor and director of the human services program at CUNY's La Guardia Community College to president of Carlos Albizu University in San Juan PR.

Dr. Bernadette Mendonez Russell.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Bernadette Mendonez Russell moves to provost at Palm Beach Community College at Boca Raton FL. She has been dean of the school of continuing education at Maywood University PA since 2001.

Dr. Julia Wallace.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. Julia Wallace moves to executive VP and provost at Central Michigan University, having been dean at the University of Northern Iowa's college of social and behavioral sciences for eight years.

Dr. June Wiley.(Women on the Move)
November 1, 2007... Dr. June Wiley moves from dean of instruction at Ottawa University in Phoenix to VP of academic affairs at Marymount University in Ranchero Palos Verdes CA.

Success factors for Hispanic women students.
November 1, 2007... Intense cultural pressures often prevent Hispanic women from pursuing an education beyond high school. But a group of students at Texas Southmost College and the University of Texas at Brownsville are beating the odds and three researchers set...

When you're the 'first woman president' ...(IN HER OWN WORDS)
November 1, 2007... Women increasingly are winning presidencies of colleges and universities. More than half of the Big 10 universities have had a woman president. In July Drew Gilpin Faust became Harvard University's first woman president, so now four of the...

Listen to all voices to develop an inclusive community.
November 1, 2007... Inclusive school communities occur only after the elimination of superficial structures and procedures, and communication is focused on race, culture, differing expectations and underlying values. The entire academic community is responsible...

What to expect when men 'do feminism' on campus.
November 1, 2007... "If you have come here to help me, please go home. But if you have come because your liberation is somehow bound with mine, then we may work together." This quote from an Aboriginal woman introduced a panel on using men as allies...

Faculty satisfaction: a gendered issue of integration.
November 1, 2007... How happy are you in your work on campus? How would you rate your job satisfaction? Are you happy to show up in the morning or do you go hide in your office? At every stage of the faculty pipeline, women are leaving at higher rates than...

Tips to succeed at tennis and other challenges.(THE LAST LAUGH)
November 1, 2007... In September of last year, I shared with you my version of Pat Conroy's My Losing Season played on a tennis court instead of a basketball court. In 2006 I played on five teams, two of them came in dead-last in their leagues at the end of the...