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Four Women Named Distinguished University Professors at Georgia State
Georgia State created the Distinguished University Professor this year to recognize professors who have track records of exemplary scholarship in their respective fields of study.
Three Women in New Faculty Roles
Malak Kotb is the founding chair of the department of basic sciences at the University of North Dakota. Catherine Cornille was appointed to an endowed chair at Boston College and Lisa Bowleg has joined the psychology department faculty at George Washington University.
Penelope Jennings Returning to Teaching at CalState Northridge
The associate vice president of faculty affairs at California State University Northridge for the past 12 years, has announced that she will step down from her post in August but stay at the university to teach business law.
Four Women in New Faculty Roles
The four women taking on new faculty duties are Grace La at Harvard University, Kristina Bross at Purdue University, Charlotte Mason at the University of Georgia, and Michelene Cho at Arizona State University.
Boston University Promotes Seven Women to Full Professor
Boston University in Massachusetts has announced the promotion of 17 faculty members to full professor. Seven of the new full professors are women.
Megan Urry Elected President of the American Astronomical Society
An expert on supermassive black holes, Dr. Urry is the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, director of the Center for Astronomy and Physics, and chair of the physics department at Yale University.
Three Women’s Colleges Rated as Having the “Best Professors”
Among the 25 colleges and universities rated as having the best professors are three women’s colleges: Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
University of Georgia Names Two Women to Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorships
Marguerite Brickman has been serving as an associate professor in the department of plant biology at the university. Marisa Anne Pagnattaro is a professor of legal studies in the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.
This Week’s News on Women Faculty
Taking on new roles are Poonam Sharma at Creighton University, Christine Sylvester at the University of Connecticut, Jennifer Kilgo at the University of Alabama Birmingham, Julie Cecere at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, and Janice Naegele at Wesleyan University.
Kansas State Promotes Seven Women to Full Professor
The seven women promoted to full professor at Kansas State are Laura Armbrust, Elizabeth Davis, Sherry Haar, Laurel Littrell, Caterina Scoglio, Christine Wilson, and Naomi Wood.
Checking on the Faculty Gender Gap at Big Ten Universities
A study published in the student newspaper at Ohio State University finds that Ohio State ranks last among the 12 universities in the Big Ten Conference in percentage of women on its faculty. The University of Iowa has the largest percentage of women faculty.
Study Finds That Women Are More Likely Than Men to “Stop the Tenure Clock”
According to researchers at the University of Minnesota, 64 percent of male hires in the 2002 to 2004 period achieved tenure in six years compared to 53 percent of women faculty hired in the same period.
Linda Chavez Is One of Three Finalists for Visiting Conservative Scholar at the University of Colorado
A graduate of the University of Colorado, Linda Chavez is the chair of the Center for Equal Opportunity, an organization that is a strong opponent of affirmative action in higher education admissions.
Two Women Named to Distinguished Professorships
Rebecca Tsosie was named a Regents Professor in the College of Law at Arizona State University and Barbara Guthrie was named the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale University.
Two Women Named Department Chairs at Jackson State University in Mississippi
Tamika Bradley leads the department of health, physical education, and recreation and Ruby Wiggins was appointed chair of the department of special education.
Bowdoin College Grants Tenure to Three Women
Sarah Conly in philosophy, Doris Santoro in education, and Jill Smith in German were all promoted to associate professor and granted tenure at the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Brunswick, Maine.
Two Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs
Andrea Bertozzi is the inaugural holder of the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity at UCLA and Ellen Kossek was named the Basil Sidney Turner Professor of Management at Purdue University.
Four Women Faculty Members Taking On New Roles
Debra Barsdale will lead the new doctoral program in nursing at the University of North Carolina. Melissa Harshman will direct the freshman seminar program at the University of Georgia. Meredith Lewis will lead a legal studies center at the University at Buffalo and former N.C. Governor Bev Purdue will teach at Duke.
The University of British Columbia Acts to Close the Gender Pay Gap
An internal study compared women’s salaries to those of men with similar academic rank and tenure. It found that gender was the factor that accounted for about $3,000 of the $14,000 discrepancy in average faculty salaries for men and women.
Study Finds Few Male Faculty Take Paid Parental Leave
The authors found that few men took paid parental leave and those that did tended not to have a homemaker spouse. The results also show that men chose not to take parental leave because they feared they would be viewed as not dedicated to their jobs.
Four Women Awarded Tenure at Lee University in Tennessee
The four women earning tenure awards are Stacey Isom, Sherry Kasper, Christine Williams and Lisa Stephenson. All four originally joined the faculty at the university in 2007.
University of Virginia Looks to Boost Women Faculty in STEM Fields
The program, funded by a a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will seek to find ways to increase women in teaching posts in science fields. In 2011, 13.7 percent of the tenure and tenure-track faculty in STEM fields at the University of Virginia were women.
Three Women in New Teaching Posts
Judith Stein was named a University Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York. Della Price joins the faculty at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and Aviva Chomsky is spending the current semester as a visiting professor at Pomona College in California.
Four Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chairs
The four women named to endowed chairs are Sunghee Tak at the University of Memphis, Anne Eichmann at Yale, Elize Glaze at Coastal Carolina, and Constance Campbell at Georgia Southern University.
Two Women Awarded Tenure at Wesleyan University
Louis Brown, who joined the faculty earlier in this academic year, is a professor of American studies and a professor of English. Constance Leidy, an associate professor of mathematics, has served on the Wesleyan faculty since 2007.
Three Women Named to Distinguished Teaching Posts
Lynn Cornelius at Washington University’s School of Medicine and Kathleen Carroll at the Yale School of Medicine were named to endowed chairs. Donna Fick was the only woman among 10 scholars named Distinguished Professors at Penn State.
Amherst College Honors Its First Woman Tenure-Track Faculty Member
Dr. Olver, the L. Stanton Williams Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at Amherst, is the first woman to have her portrait displayed in Amherst’s chapel.
Women Making Slow Progress in Faculty Posts at Stanford University
If the rate of increase in the percentage of women faculty over the past decade (roughly a half percentage point increase per year) were projected into the future, it would take nearly half a century before women would reach equality with men on the university’s faculty.
Two Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
Lorrie Moore, now at the University of Wisconsin, was named to an endowed chair in English and will begin teaching at Vanderbilt this fall. Celia Applegate now holds an endowed chair at Vanderbilt after teaching at the University of Rochester for 24 years.
Three Women in New Teaching Positions
The three women in new faculty posts are Andrea Warner-Czyz at the University of Texas at Dallas, Julie Dash at Wayne State University, and Megan Shepherd at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.
Jennifer Lewis Named to New Endowed Chair at Harvard University
Professor Lewis was serving as the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and was director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
Boston College Scholar Awarded Honorary Degree From the University of Glasgow
Marilyn Cochran-Smith is the John E. Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education.
Six Women in New Faculty Roles
The women with new teaching roles are Shirley Franklin at the University of Texas, Janie Simms Hipp at the University of Arkansas, Vivian Fluellen at Fort Valley State University, Larissa Williams at Bates College, Gloria Choi at MIT, and Robin Fontenot at Virginia Tech.
Study Finds That for History Faculty It Takes Women Longer Than Men to Earn Promotions
A new study by Robert B. Townsend, deputy director of the American Historical Association, finds that it takes longer for married women historians to get promoted to full professor than it does for single women in the field. And both married and single women take longer to get promoted than male historians.
Middlebury College Promotes Two Women to Full Professor
Anne K. Knowles was named a full professor of geography and Kathryn Morse was appointed a full professor of history.
