Lesbian administrators: an invisible asset.

As a doctoral student in the mid-1990s, I told a few of my professors that I wanted to study lesbian leaders. Later, when one very sincerely asked how my study on "hemophilia" was going, I knew there was much work to be done in this area.

Giving voice to the lesbian experience, writing about lesbian contributions to higher education and reclaiming a history that has been virtually erased is very important, for many reasons.

First, I know of only one other researcher who has studied this group of women, Dr. Betsy Metzger. We once discussed how easy our literature reviews were, since no one had ever published on this topic. The literature on lesbian ...