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Women in Higher Education

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Harvard University's historic choice of Drew Gilpin Faust for president is the latest of several high-profile recent presidential appointments of women. Others include Ruth Simmons at Brown, Shirley Tilghman at Princeton, Mary Sue Coleman at Michigan, Amy Guttman at Penn and Susan Hockfield at MIT.

Are these blips on the screen or a new era for women in leadership? The American Council on Education's 2007 report The American College President offers some answers and raises disturbing questions.

Released at the ACE annual meeting in February, this is ACE's sixth such report, starting in 1986. It's based on 2006 data from 2,148 college and university ...


    
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