In 2022, former women student-athletes sued San Diego State University over claims that they were not provided equal scholarship money compared to male athletes. Now, the university has settled and agreed to pay $300,000 in damages split among nearly 800 women.

Dr. Vacca currently serves as the Gevork M. Avedissian Associate Professor of Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia University. She is a historian of early Islam working on the caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania.

The women who were promoted are Nadia Kouraytem in mechanical and aerospace engineering, Cassandra McCall in engineering education, and Sierra Young in civil and environmental engineering.

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

Joy Castro, Xia Hong, Jena Asgarpoor, Manda Williamson, and Bonita Sharif were appointed to named professorships at the flagship campus of the University of Nebraska.

Dr. Brickhouse has served as provost of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for the past seven years. She is slated to retire from her leadership role in July and return to the faculty following a one-year sabbatical.

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

Jo Ann Blondin has been named Woman of the Year by the Association for Women in Community Colleges. She is slated to retire this summer after 33 years in higher education and 13 years at the helm of Clark State College in Ohio.

The new deans are Kristin Eschenfelder, Gena Southall, Tracey Gregory, Ceridwyn King, Anne Stevens, Melanie Landon-Hays, Melanie Bloom, Carolyn Pepper, Deborah Farringer, and Kirsten Hokeness.

Edwidge Dantict, the Wun Tsum Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University, is the author of 18 books, including works of fiction and nonfiction.

The appointments are Katie Tarr at Bryn Mawr College, Sheena Cobrand at North Carolina A&T State University, Xiran Yuan at Colorado State University, Amber Burdge at Western Colorado University, Ally Palmer at Western Wyoming Community College, Sarah Custer at Clemson University, Kate Dorrity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Brittany Kicklighter at Western Carolina University.

Dr. Ondrechen has taught chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University in Boston for more than 45 years. She was recently honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her life-long dedication to mentoring students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM.