Dr. Cautin, provost of Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, brings over two decades of higher education experience to her new role as president of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. She is slated to begin her presidency on July 1.

Currently, women are the head of government in 13 UN member countries. Ten of these women are their country's first woman leader. Only 63 of the 193 UN member countries have been led by a woman.

John Cabot University is a private American University based in Rome, Italy. Dr. Maioni, currently a professor at McGill University in Canada, is slated to become John Cabot's first woman president on July 1.

In 2024, 7.9 million women across the EU worked as scientists and engineers, up from 5.2 million women in 2014 and 3.4 million women in 2008. Across all economic activities, women represented 40.5 percent of scientists and engineers in the EU workforce in 2024. 

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is a national organization that supports Jesuit higher education institutions in the United States, Belize, and Canada. Dr. Murray, who currently serves as senior vice president for student development and mission at the College of the Holy Cross, is slated to become the association's next president on June 2.

Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

Dr. Fuentes was named the first Hispanic and second woman president of St. Edward's University in 2021. She is set to retire from her presidency on July 1, 2026.

The four scholars promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure at Bryn Maw College in Pennsylvania are C.C. McKee in the history of art, Aline Normoyle in computer science, Ariana Orvell in psychology and Chanelle Wilson in education.

Elon University in North Carolina has announced the promotion of 16 scholars to the rank of full professor. Nine of these promotions went to women.

Dr. Bolles was a longtime professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Maryland. Trained as an anthropologist, she was known for her scholarship on the labor experiences of Caribbean women.

A large coalition of sexual assault survivor advocacy groups recently sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education condemning the department's failure to properly address students' sexual violence complaints under Title IX.