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One of the country's oldest women's colleges, Smith College, has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging its acceptance of transgender women undergraduate students is in violation of Title IX and limits opportunities for "biological women."

Patricia Washington McGraw taught at three institutions throughout the state of Arkansas, including the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she was hired as the first-ever Black faculty member in 1971.

“It has been an honor to serve the research community these last four years," said Dr. Harvey "In a challenging environment for research funding, we showed that it is possible to attract significant philanthropic support for rigorous and impactful social and behavioral science that helps communities thrive."

The Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey, has announced the appointment of four new faculty members. Three of the appointees are women: Elizabeth L. Carter, Anjali Deshmukh, and Amy Saji.

A veteran of the United States Army Nursing Corps, Dr. Broome held nursing leadership positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Indiana University, and Duke University. Alongside her teaching and administrative roles, she studied ethical pediatric nursing practices, as well as the education and training of nursing executives.

The women appointed to endowed professorships are Jean Garrison at the University of Wyoming, Dorthy Schafer at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Tamara Mix at Oklahoma State University, Ann O'Connell at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Cassie Miura at San Francisco State University, and Jessica Henry at Hastings College in Nebraska.

A scholar of women's history and material culture in the United States, Maria Miller is a distinguished professor of history and associate dean in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The new deans are Nancy Kirkpatrick, Michelle Froese, Niki Callison, Diane Reich, Jennifer Chatman, Alexia Hudson-Ward, Julie Thornton, Mukta Panda, Sharmila Anandasabapathy, Jodi Mills, Jewel Bronaugh, and Tamara Sumner.

Kim Needy has served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas for the past five years. She is a past president of both the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Management.

Pia Gupta, Wanda Blanchett, Christine Kelleher Palus, Allison Rank, Amelia Kraehe, Emily Jones, Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Renee Boyer, and Sally Davis are taking on new academic roles at educational institutions across the country.