Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

A professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Yamashita is the author of eight books and several plays. She has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

The new deans are Julie Akers at Washington State University, Leslie Rissler at the University of Montana, Rhonda L. Mingo at Presbyterian College in South Carolina, Leigh Giles-Brown at Lincoln Land Community College in Illinois, Jasmin Feimster at Pitt Community College in North Carolina, and Kayla Caron at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts.

Dr. Gilmour has taught government and political science courses at Midland College in Texas for more than three decades. She has received the college's Teacher of the Year Award three times.

The appointments are Deana Warner at Southwest Minnesota State University, Jane Chadwick at Virginia Tech, Kizzy N. Lea at Livingstone College in North Carolina, Katreshia Louis-Verett at North Carolina A&T State University, Becky Hall Frenkel at Rice University in Texas, and Katelynn Potter at Mississippi State University.

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has honored Washington State University's Jennifer Henrichsen for her scholarship on how structural conditions and evolving forms of risk shape journalistic work, and what those pressures mean for journalism and democratic life.

The four women appointed to endowed professorships are Christina Baker in African American engagement, Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz in cognitive and information sciences, Courtenay Monroe in political science, and Jinah Kim in global arts, media and writing studies.

In an analysis of some 810,000 positions across more than 10,000 journals from 15 major scholarly publishers, a new study has found women represent just under one-third of all identified editorial positions around the world.

"I have seen firsthand the difference technical education can make for our students, their families, and the businesses and industries that depend on a skilled workforce," said Amanda Foreman, the new interim president of Coastal Pines Technical College in Georgia.

In a new study, participants often failed to notice the absence of women in a group of neurosurgeons, as well as the absence of men in a group of teachers.

Sara M. Butler is vice chancellor for academic affairs at Honolulu Community College in Hawaii and Jennifer L. Cumpston is vice president for academic affairs at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina

A new study on workplace friendship has found women's networks prioritize friendship and contribute to organizational stability, while men's networks prioritize individual benefit.