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.

Bowdoin College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Brunswick, Maine, has announced the promotion of four women to the rank of associate professor: Ireri Elizabeth Chávez-Bárcenas, Samia Shabnam Rahimtoola, Mary Rogalski, and Maron Wein Sorenson. The four faculty members were also granted tenure.

In 1996, Gordly became the first Black women to be elected to the Oregon State Senate. A decade later, she joined the faculty at Portland State University, where she taught in the Black studies department, created legislative internship opportunities for students, and established a center for mental health services.

The women taking on new academic positions are Vanessa Rose at Mount Holyoke College, Joan DerHovsepian at Rice University, Pamela Vayda at Mississippi State University-Meridian, M. Diane Burton at Cornell University, Laura W. Perna at the University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Glover Konfrst at Drake University.

Dr. Rhodes' award-winning book, Will's Race for Home (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2025), tells the story of a Black father and his 12-year old son as they set out to win land in the Oklahoma land rush is the late nineteenth-century.

The appointments are Yvette Huet at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Alison Renee Webel at the University of Michigan, Patricia Sánchez Abril at the University of Miami, Amy Cossentino at Youngstown State University, and Kneka P. Smith at A.T. Still University of Health Sciences.

As director of education and outreach for New American History at the University of Richmond, Evans collaborates with educators, museums, and cultural institutions to design history curricula for both K-12 and college students.

Breana M. Ware is the inaugural general counsel at Spelman College. Dianne Pledger was named director of Winston-Salem State University's Diggs Art Gallery and Shontel Grumhaus was appointed senior vice president for development and external affairs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Dr. Chambers is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor in the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where she has taught for the past five decades. She was recently honored by the Society for Toxicology for career-long dedication to advancing the field of toxicological science.

Carmala Garizone of the University of Arizona, Janet Currie of Yale University, Cecilia Diniz Behn of the Colorado School of Mines, Kimberly Noble of Columbia University's Teachers College, and Holly Harris of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center that is affiliated with the University of Washington, have all been named to endowed faculty positions at their institutions.

Across four studies, new research led by Cornell University's Alice Lee found women consistently show a stronger preference for postings with narrower salary ranges compared to men. The research revealed a similar pattern within the labor market itself; industries with wider posted salary ranges have a lower representation of women in the workforce.

Dr. Slater comes to her new role from Marist University in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she has been serving as senior associate provost, dean of science, and professor of biology.