Women in Higher Education articles from October 2006

Women in Higher Education archives from October 2006

Strategies to increase gender equity on a rural campus.(Dr. Martha Potvin )
October 1, 2006... In 2001, when Dr. Martha Potvin became the first woman dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Dakota, the biologist noticed the dearth of women both in the sciences and at the full professor rank. [ILLUSTRATION...

More schools drop SAT exam as scores fall.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Adding to a growing list of more than 735 schools, Virginia's George Mason University and Rhode Island's Providence College announced that they too are dropping the SAT requirement for admission. More than 25% of the U.S. News and World...

Bias reduces women leading math, science.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Documenting common knowledge, a recent report by the National Academies found that women are underrepresented in academic leadership in math and science not because they are less capable than men, but due to "unintentional biases and outdated...

'Genius awards' reward five faculty women.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Women are 11 of the 25 new MacArthur Fellows, which include 12 professors in computers, creative writing and the sciences. The five women faculty chosen are: * Dr. Lisa Curran, 25, a professor of forestry and environmental sciences at Yale...

Sex bias costs U of California $12 million.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Lawsuits alleging sexual harassment, bias and sex between faculty and students have cost the University of California at least $12 million over the last three years, according to an internal audit and report that acting general counsel Jeff...

UC to hire equity/inclusion vice chancellor.(University of California (Berkeley))(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The University of California at Berkeley is creating a new job: Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said the goal is not only to recruit minorities as to ensure that students, faculty and staff are "fully...

AAUP finally speaks up for adjuncts.(American Association of University Professors )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The American Association of University Professors recently drafted new guidelines on how colleges should treat adjunct professors with several years of service to a school. The proposed guidelines go much further than previous ones in outlining...

Women, minorities fuel grad school boost.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Buying into education as the means to fulfill the Great American Dream, women and minorities are responsible for the 2% increase in grad school enrollment from 2004 to 2005, as recently reported by the Council of Graduate Schools. Women...

Ousted AD can sue for retaliation.(Lafayette College )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... A female former AD at Lafayette College PA can sue the private school for damages under Title IX in a case of alleged retaliation, according to a recent court ruling. Some legal experts said that this is the first case in which a federal...

20% of female cadets assaulted at The Citadel.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Almost one in five female cadets at The Citadel SC report being sexually assaulted while at the military school, according to a recent survey released by the school. Nearly all of the school's 118 female cadets and 487 of the 1,770 male...

More fallout from Colorado U rape scandal.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... More than 20 women's and civil rights groups are collaborating to revive a lawsuit against the University of Colorado filed by two alleged rape victims. Lisa Simpson and another unnamed woman claim that school's football players and...

Beloit Mindset List: what have they missed?(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Most 18-year-old freshmen have always known "Google" to be a verb, beach volleyball to be a recognized sport and professional athletes to compete in the Olympics. These fun facts and more come from the new Beloit College Mindset List from...

Teacher education: low quality, outdated.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... As president of Teachers College at Columbia University NY, Arthur Levine had complained that programs for educating teachers were not very good. Now as president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, he is using survey...

MBA students most likely to cheat.(Master of business administration degree)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... "It doesn't matter how you get it done. The key thing is to get it done" many MBA students believe, according to a researcher who studied grad school cheating. That attitude might explain why a recent survey of 5,331 students at 32 grad...

Court decides to continue 'ministerial exception' to claims of sex bias, after all.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... A federal appeals court reversed its previous ruling that courts can entertain employment claims brought by clergy against religious entities. In a rare move, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned its May 2006 ruling and...

Two more colleges plan to admit men.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... In a growing trend, two more women-only colleges have decided to admit men in order to maintain financial health. Randolph-Macon Woman's College of Virginia and Regis College of Massachusetts are the latest casualties in the decline of women's...

Bias costs University of Phoenix $130,000.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... The University of Phoenix, Santa Teresa campus will pay $130,000 to settle a workplace bias claim, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced. The EEOC had filed the suit in 2005 on behalf of a female former employee who...

St. Louis CC to pay $850,000 for harassment.(NEWSWATCH)
October 1, 2006... Harassment by former campus police officer Larry Phillips was just part of the job for Caren Sharpe, a 10-year employee at St. Louis Community College who moved from dispatcher to secretary to the chief of police. He repeatedly asked the...

Great ideas to solve challenges on campus.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Colleges are coming up with excellent ideas to recruit and retain fabulous female faculty, staff and students. * Boston's Northeastern University is offering personal coaches to help students set goals and manage time. Coaches can help...

Want to swap faculty jobs?(NEWSWATCH)(Website overview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... If you're a professor feeling stale at your current job or wanting to check out a new location, there is a Web site just for you. Cass Foster, a drama professor at Central Arizona College, has created a site for professors worldwide to swap...

Lawsuits change campus responses to suicidal students.
October 1, 2006... Students may die to protect colleges from lawsuits. That's one scenario if defensive college policies keep students from seeking the help they need. Recent court decisions or settlements suggest the law may be catching up to good sense:...

Georgetown's law clinics help to feminize the law.
October 1, 2006... Residencies give medical students a way of joining theory with practice. Similarly, law school clinics allow law students to apply their education to real life. The 12 clinics at the Law Center at Georgetown University DC offer students more...

New Synergystic Leadership Theory works for women.
October 1, 2006... Look at the geometrical solid called a tetrahedron. It's made of four identical triangles placed edge-to-edge. Each of its four points interacts with all the others. A nonhierarchical model, it's the same regardless which point is up. Two...

Hierarchical dysfunction and mobbing in the academy.
October 1, 2006... The first step to finding solutions to a problem is recognizing the problem. When it comes to identifying the root cause of dysfunction in the academic workplace, Dr. Jeanine Stewart, professor of psychology at Washington and Lee...

Monica Augustin.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Monica Augustin moves from registrar at Mount Holyoke College MA to become registrar at Santa Clara University CA.

Gretchen M. Bataille.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Gretchen M. Bataille is the first woman president of the University of North Texas. She has been chief academic officer of the University of North Carolina since 2000.

Joyce Berry.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Joyce Berry, the dean responsible for securing the largest gift in the history of CO State University ($26 million to name the Warner College of Natural Resources), has become the new VP for university advancement and strategic initiatives....

Simone Billings.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Simone Billings is the new assistant to the president of Santa Clara University CA. She will continue as a senior lecturer in the English department.

Joni Comstock.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Joni Comstock has become senior VP for championships and senior woman administrator (SWA) at the NCAA, replacing Judy Sweet. She was AD at American University in Washington DC, and also has been AD at the University of North Carolina at...

Kathryn R. Costello.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Kathryn R. Costello, a longtime administrator at several universities, has become VP for development at SUNY at Buffalo.

Margaret Drugovich.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Margaret Drugovich becomes VP for strategic communications and university enrollment at Ohio Wesleyan University, where she has been VP for admission and financial aid.

Susan Elkins.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Susan Elkins, dean of interdisciplinary studies and extended education at Tennessee Technological University, is now also VP for extended programs and regional development.

Irene C. Ferguson.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Irene C. Ferguson is now VP for student development and dean of students at College of Notre Dame of Maryland, moving from dean of students at Southeast Missouri State University.

Susan Gary.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Susan Gary has been promoted from director of finance and treasurer at Queens University NC to VP of finance and treasurer.

Lucia Albino Gilbert.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Lucia Albino Gilbert became provost of Santa Clara University CA, moving from vice provost for undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Kaia A. Hedlund.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Kaia A. Hedlund, the new AD at Chaminade University of Honolulu, has been associate director for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and president of Kaico Sports.

Mary Blake Huer.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Mary Blake Huer, professor of humanities who also headed communication labs at California State University at Fullerton, moves to dean of health sciences at the University of Indianapolis.

Patricia Wallace Ingraham.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Patricia Wallace Ingraham, distinguished professor of public administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University NY, becomes dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs at SUNY at...

Elva LeBlanc.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Elva LeBlanc, president of Galveston College TX, becomes president of the Northwest campus of Tarrant County College in Fort Worth TX.

Ann Levy.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Ann Levy moves from executive VP and dean of academic affairs at the College of the Visual Arts MN to president and chief academic officer.

Nivine Megahed.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Nivine Megahed is the new president of Kendall College IL, moving from group VP of Kaplan Higher Education.

Karen Morrison.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Karen Morrison, JD, is the new director of gender initiatives & student athlete wellbeing at the NCAA, replacing Rosie Stallman. She has been associate athletics director and senior woman administrator at the University of Colorado.

Maureen Powers.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Maureen Powers moves from VP for student affairs at the City College of CUNY to dean of students at Stanford University CA.

Mary Schopp.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Mary Schopp, executive VP at the Milwaukee Institute of Art WI, becomes interim president.

Karen Stewart.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Karen Stewart, dean of the learning resources unit at Waubonsee Community College IL, moves to VP for quality and strategic development.

Claire S. Stinson.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Claire S. Stinson, VP for business affairs at Northeast State Technical Community College, moves to VP for business and fiscal affairs at Tennessee Technological University.

Sheila R. Sykes.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Sheila R. Sykes, interim president at Quinsigamond Community College MA, moves to VP for finance and administration at Fitchburg State College MA.

Judith H. VanGorden.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Judith H. VanGorden moves to senior VP & CFO at the Arizona State University Foundation. She has been treasurer and chief investment officer for the University of Colorado.

Marjorie Villani.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Marjorie Villani, interim executive VP at Pueblo Community College CO, will now serve as interim president.

Deborah Wilds.(Women on the Move)
October 1, 2006... Dr. Deborah Wilds, who has been senior program officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the new president of the Washington Educational Foundation.

From part-time to full-time to my time.
October 1, 2006... It wasn't until I attained my advanced degree that I learned that English professors like me are truly the proverbial "dime a dozen." I was just a baby, in my very early 20s, straight out of grad school when I received my first paycheck...

The best teachers ask big questions.
October 1, 2006... Who were your best college teachers? Which changed your thinking or your life? How did they do it? Techniques aren't what distinguish a great teacher, Dr. Ken Bain found in a 15-year study of 63 highly successful college teachers (What the...

The tools of my trade.(THE LAST LAUGH)
October 1, 2006... As a writer, I consider the simple ball-point pen to be one of the most important tools of my trade. Useful not only to scribble messages or ideas and sign checks, they seem to multiply like rabbits in some places, and disappear like hibiscus...