Women in Higher Education articles from October 2004

Women in Higher Education archives from October 2004

Ethical crises on campus require feminist corrections.
October 1, 2004... Last year's arrest of a college president in Iowa on marijuana charges wasn't an isolated incident. Ethical scandals at colleges and universities keep hitting the headlines, hurting more than those directly involved. Alumni turned away college...

MIT chooses its first woman president.(Newswatch)
October 1, 2004... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology named its first female president in August. The MIT Corporation chose Yale University provost Dr. Susan Hockfield in a unanimous vote. She will take office in December. A neuroscientist with only...

Critics decry handling of CU sex scandal.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A grand jury investigating the University of Colorado at Boulder's scandal over using sex and alcohol to recruit athletes claimed that the school's Board of Regents is "unqualified" to supervise its football program. The grand jury's...

Georgia professor wins sex bias lawsuit.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A Georgia federal jury has ordered Kennesaw State University GA to pay more than $1 million in a sex-bias lawsuit. The jury awarded $760,000 for lost wages and $300,000 for emotional damages to plaintiff Dr. Hillary Height Daw. The award is one...

Winning sports teams don't bring big bucks.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... It's a myth that winning sports teams translate into bigger alumni gifts or better student applicants, according to a report recently released by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The report contradicts the...

Scholarships to create video games for women, who are 39% of the players.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... In an effort to bring more women into the field of video game design and more female-centered video games to market, Southern Methodist University TX is offering scholarships in video-game development for women. Working with web-based gaming...

Sexual harasser allowed to resign.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A University of Ohio at Athens professor who took photographs of a student posing topless has resigned and will not face proceedings to strip him of tenure. Under an agreement, photojournalism professor Larry Nighswander will continue to...

School paper to continue strip club ads.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Editors of the University of New Mexico's student newspaper, the Daily Lobo, refused a payment offered by the school's president to halt ads for an Albuquerque strip club. Marisa Demarco, Lobo's editor-in-chief, said she rejected the offer...

Injured cheerleader need not repay award.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Nebraska State Supreme Court ruled that a former Nebraska University cheerleader does not have to repay benefits to an insurance company after receiving a settlement from NU. Former Cornhusker Tracy Jensen was enormously relieved by the...

2004 'Mindset List' offers reality check.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... For this fall's class of freshman, the United States has always been a Prozac nation and Alan Greenspan has always made its major financial decisions. These are just a few of the insights offered by Beloit College's latest Mindset List, a...

Play for grades at big-time sports schools.(Newswatch)
October 1, 2004... Nearly three dozen universities award academic credit for playing on varsity sports teams, according to a Washington Post survey. Of the top 25 football teams on the Associated Press list, 11 have players earning academic credit for practicing,...

Sports project integrates campus athletics.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is sponsoring a project to implement a book's message of reform in college sports. William Bowen's book The Game of Life examines admissions, academics, and sports at elite colleges. The foundation has...

BYU to merge women's and men's athletics.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Brigham Young University UT will consolidate its women's and men's athletics departments, the school announced recently. The restructuring comes on the heels of a four-month review to streamline the school's athletics programs and make them...

Monterey requires community service.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... At Cal State Monterey Bay, service learning is now a requirement, earning it the distinction of being the only public university in California to make service an integral part of education. Some say it is an essential educational experience,...

Will women choose to lead our community colleges?
October 1, 2004... Dr. Bonnie Petterson sat in National Institute for Leadership Development (NILD) sessions in which women were asked if they hoped to become a college president. In rooms filled with very competent, knowledgeable community college women, very...

Non-traditional presidents pose no threat to higher ed.
October 1, 2004... According to The American President 2002, 14.7% of college and university presidents came from jobs outside higher education in 2000, up from 7.8% in 1998, including 3.8% from business and government. Many fear the "outsiders" could destroy a...

Faith, feminism and freedom of thought.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The 1960s was a time of widespread hopefulness and high expectations for Catholic women, especially following positive assertions coming from Vatican II. But the forward momentum didn't continue. Research shows that in all denominations,...

Angel Cabera.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Angel Cabera, dean of the Instituto de Empresa graduate business school in Madrid, Spain, will become president of Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

Deborah Morgan.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Deborah Morgan, assistant dean at Delgado Community College's Northshore campuses, moves to dean of the campuses.

Dr. Lynn M. Gangone.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Lynn M. Gangone, former head of the NAWE organization for women and recently VP of the Maryland Independent College and University Association, is now teaching ed policy and leadership in the grad program at George Washington University DC...

Dr. Susan Hockfield.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Susan Hockfield, provost at Yale University CN, will become president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December (see Newswatch).

Dr. Allison Kimmich.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Allison Kimmich is the first full-time executive director of the National Women's Studies Association. Among the first wave of graduates earning PhDs in Women's Studies in the United States, she has been a professor and administrator at...

Dr. Evelyn (Bonnie) Lynch.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Evelyn (Bonnie) Lynch, provost and VP for academic affairs at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will become president of Saint Joseph College CT.

Dr. Nancy McCallin.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Nancy McCallin, director of the Colorado State Office of Planning and Budgeting, moves to the presidency of the Colorado Community College system on October 15.

Dr. Betsy Metzger.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Betsy Metzger, who has been assistant director of the Higher Education Resource Service (HERS) for 21 years, will become assistant dean in the school of architecture at the University of Denver starting in October.

Dr. Denise Reading.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Denise Reading, VP for student affairs and dean of students at Baldwin-Wallace College OH, becomes president of Cuyahoga Community College's Corporate College in Ohio.

Dr. Judith Rodin.(Women on the Move)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Judith Rodin, who recently resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania after a decade as the first woman to lead an Ivy League university, will become president of the Rockefeller Foundation in March 2005.

Mim Runey.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2004... Mim Runey, special assistant to the president at Johnson & Wales University SC, becomes president of the Charleston campus.

Dr. Cynthia Secor.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Cynthia Secor, who founded the Higher Education Resource Services, Mid-America (HERS) Institutes and created the month-long development sessions for women at Bryn Mawr College PA and the week-long sessions for women in athletics, will...

Dr. Jo Young Switzer.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2004... Dr. Jo Young Switzer, who has been VP of academic affairs at Manchester College IN since 1993, will become president of the college in July 2005.

Developing new leaders based on passions, priorities.
October 1, 2004... Nome Stillwell, a staff member in the office of strate gic management at Columbus State Community College OH, expected the usual when she enrolled in a leadership development workshop. She anticipated it would simply teach skills, with no...

Survival tips for deans of education.(In Their Own Words)
October 1, 2004... In an era that recognizes the importance of women in leadership, we undertook this study to profile women deans of education and identify what they perceive as keys to their survival and success. Method We mailed a 17-item...

Pursuing a service agenda on a Catholic campus.
October 1, 2004... Teaching, research and community service represent the three prongs of a successful academic career. Yet research seems to be the only one to be valued when it comes to promotion and tenure. Because Catholic social teaching emphasizes...

What's it like for women faculty off the tenure track?
October 1, 2004... Faculty members ineligible for tenure have the lowest pay, fewest benefits, least job security and least access to resources. Most are reasonably satisfied in their work but that's no substitute for fairness, Dr. Jennifer Hart said at the...

Networks link to improve climate at Xavier U.
October 1, 2004... Women undergraduates first gained admission to the all-male Xavier University OH 35 years ago. They created Breen Lodge, a Women's Center that included a lending library, career center, women's health and assertiveness programs and even a...

Free your mind for a healthy body.
October 1, 2004... We all have times when things seem to pile up and threaten to overcome us with stress and worry. Often they bring physical stress and ailments including monstrous headaches, backaches, stomach problems and the occasional cold. Mental and...

What comes after lifetime achievement award?(The Last Laugh)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... On October 14, the Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL) plans to present me with its first Outstanding Achievement Award for supporting the promotion of women into leadership positions. It's a grassroots group that has...