Women in Higher Education articles from September 2003

Women in Higher Education archives from September 2003

How senior women leaders can claim their power.
September 1, 2003... Meeting in Ottawa in April, the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) discussed "Women in Academic Administration: Housekeepers or Groundbreakers?" The French version, "femmes de menage ou femmes de pouvoir," is closer...

Office of Women at ACE to study revising faculty promotion and tenure systems.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... With between half and two-thirds of faculty in U.S. colleges and universities set to retire within 10 years, now's the time to set new policies for their replacements. With the help of a two-year, $484,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan...

Women still shorted in varsity athletics.(Newswatch)
September 1, 2003... Despite making some progress at gender equity, schools still provide fewer chances for women to play, hire fewer women coaches and spend less on women's sports. Rising costs threaten both women's and men's non-revenue sports. Information...

Men's coaches still challenge Title IX.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... They're like the Energizer Bunny, never giving up despite repeatedly being told they're wrong. A group of men's sports coaches, now calling themselves the College Sports Council, is renewing its challenge to the U.S. Department of...

There she is ... Miss Harvard?(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Harvard University is used to producing distinguished alums. But this year, it may have a new type of notable graduate: a Miss America. Two women will represent America's oldest learning institution at the competition in Atlantic City on...

Family sues MIT over student's suicide.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The family of a sophomore who committed suicide two years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is suing the school for $20 million, claiming that the university is responsible for the woman's death by failing to address her...

UC professors vote to speak more freely.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... University of California professors voted to loosen rules on classroom discourse after weeks of controversy. The new policy replaces a nearly 70-year-old academic freedom statement that teaching ought to be "dispassionate" and concerned only...

Penn professor accused of drugging, raping.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... A University of Pennsylvania professor will stand trial for allegedly drugging and raping a woman in his office last September, after attempts to negotiate a plea bargain failed. Tracy McIntosh, a professor of neurosurgery, is accused of...

'Elect a woman to solve problems'.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... It's time to elect a woman president, former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun told an audience in Iowa recently. "Women tend to be oriented to practical solutions and problem solving," she remarked. "If you want practical solutions that...

Radcliffe reduced ... again.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Once Radcliffe College MA, established in 1879 as an alternative for women who were refused admission to Harvard University, was a proud place, one of the Seven Sisters, elite Northeastern colleges that admitted only women. Now what's left...

RIT looks at gender gap in info technology.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Two Rochester Institute of Technology NY researchers are exploring gender issues facing the information technology field. The National Science Foundation has awarded assistant professors Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Tona Henderson $323,000 to...

Transgendered student searches for housing.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... A transgendered student at Northeastern University MA has gone public with an assertion that school administrators improperly handled a campus housing request. The student, who was born female but is undergoing hormone treatment to become male,...

Women on the move in campus leadership.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Dr. Georgia Lesh-Laurie has retired as chancellor of the University of Colorado-Denver. Dr. Clara M. Lovett has become president of the American Association for Higher Education, replacing Yolanda Moses. She has been president of Northern...

Schools must reinvent themselves for future survival.
September 1, 2003... State funding is tight, endowments are shrinking and tuition increases outpace inflation. Something s got to give. Reflex response is to tighten the belt until "this too shall pass." But it won't pass, so schools must reinvent themselves...

Generations differ in defining feminism, tradition.
September 1, 2003... How a woman defines tradition, feminism and family is based mostly on her generation, discovered a researcher studying patriarchy. Dr. Elizabeth Suter, a visiting assistant professor in the communications studies department at the...

NCAA seminar offers two views of Title IX.
September 1, 2003... Athletics leaders trying to comply with Title IX, the 1972 federal law requiring gender equity in educational opportunities, heard two different perspectives at the NCAA Title IX seminar held in San Diego in April. After four national...

Teaching method helps integrate non-traditional students.(In Her Own Words)
September 1, 2003... The increasing number of non-traditional students is changing classroom demographics in higher education. In 2002 women earned about 700,000 bachelor's degrees in the United States, while males earned about 520,000. Women account for more black...

How to create a culture of acceptance for gay athletes.(In Her Own Words)
September 1, 2003... Athletics is the last big hurdle to be overcome in the acceptance of diverse sexual orientations in society, said author and motivational speaker Dave Pallone. Concerned about the extensive homophobia in athletics and its effects on gay...

Gender: a systems approach.(In Her Own Words)
September 1, 2003... This article is loosely based on a speech called "Building Alliances through Communication" given to the Michigan ACE Network for Women Conference held at Michigan State University in June. About a year ago, the University of Kentucky fired...

A summer of reunions.(The Last Laugh)
September 1, 2003... For me 2003 has been the summer of reconnection to my former selves through reunions. It's been a time to recall my former friends and teammates, relatives, partners, family... not to mention offices and homes. July 2: Pat Groeschell...