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Ruth J. Simmons Appointed the Eighth President of Prairie View A&M University in Texas
Dr. Simmons has been serving as interim president of the university since July. She served as the 18th president of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 2001 to 2012. Before becoming president of Brown University, Dr. Simmons was president of Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts college for women in Northampton, Massachusetts.
University of Massachusetts Scholar Is the New Leader of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Patricia Gubitosi was elected president of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Despite its name and its origins focusing on the languages of the American Southwest, the association now has an international focus on the scientific study of languages.
Denise Bannan to Once Again Serve as President of the Owosso Campus of Baker College in Michigan
Since 2008, Dr. Bannan has been serving as provost for Baker College and will continue to serve in that role. Dr. Bannan previously served as president of the Owosso campus from 1995 to 2008.
Connie Ledoux Book to Be the First Woman President of Elon University in North Carolina
Dr. Book is no stranger to Elon University. She joined the faculty in 1999 as an assistant professor of communications. Dr. Book left Elon in 2015 to become the first woman provost at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
New York University’s Eileen Sullivan-Marx to Lead the American Academy of Nursing
Eileen Sullivan-Marx is the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and dean of the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University. She will serve for two years as president-elect and then lead the American Academy of Nursing for two years.
Mary Ann Mavrinac Is the New President of the Association of Research Libraries
Mary Ann Mavrinac is vice provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of University of Rochester Libraries. The Association of Research Libraries represents 125 libraries at large research universities in the United States and Canada.
Karen Scolforo Selected as the Next President of Castleton University in Vermont
Karen M. Scolforo has been serving as the ninth president of Central Penn College in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. Dr. Scolforo has served as president there since 2013. From 2009 to 2013, Dr. Scolforo served as executive director of Fortis College in Jacksonville, Florida.
Angela Eikenberry to Lead the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Actions
Angela Eikenberry, the David C. Scott Diamond Alumni Professor of Public Affairs in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been chosen as president-elect of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Actions.
Cameron Brunet-Koch to Step Down From Presidency of North Central Michigan College
Dr. Bruney-Koch has led the college at the north end of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula since 2001. Previously, she was dean of student services at the college. Earlier, she was dean of student personnel services at West Shore Community College in Scottville, Michigan.
The First Woman President of Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington
Dr. Woods has been serving as provost at Jackson College in Jackson, Michigan. She has been at the college for the past eight years. Previously, Dr. Woods was director of student success at Lansing Community College in Michigan.
Janet Dudley-Eshbach Is Stepping Down as President of Salisbury University in Maryland
Dr. Dudley-Eshbach was named president of Salisbury University in 2000. She is the first woman to hold the position and the longest-serving woman president in the history of the University of Maryland System. She will take a one year sabbatical and return to the university as full-time faculty member.
The Gender Scoring Gap on the SAT College Entrance Examination
This year women had a mean score of 534 on the reading test. This was just two points higher than the mean score for men. On the mathematics section, men scored 538. This was 22 points higher than the mean score for women.
Department of Education Rescinds Obama Administration’s Guidelines on Dealing With Campus Sexual Assault
The U.S. Department of Education stated that the Obama administration’s guidelines “ignored notice and comment requirements, created a system that lacked basic elements of due process, and failed to ensure fundamental fairness.”
Two Women Announce They Are Stepping Down as College Presidents
Cynthia A. Zane, president of Hilbert College in Hamburg, New York, and Anna D. Weitz, president of Reading Area Community College in Pennsylvania, have both announced that they will step down from their posts at the end of the current academic year.
Notre Dame’s Jennifer Tank to Lead the Society for Freshwater Science
Jennifer Tank is the Galla Professor of Biological Sciences and director of the Environmental Change Initiative at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She will serve as president-elect of the Society for Freshwater Science until May 2018, when she will become president.
Sarah Mailhiot’s Milestone Achievement at Montana State University
Until now no woman had ever earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Montana State University. Sarah Mailhiot, whose doctoral research involved finding better ways to diagnose osteoarthritis using magnetic resonance imaging, is the first woman to do so. She is now conducting research in Sweden as a Whitaker Scholar.
Three Women Presidents Receive the Academic Leadership Award From the Carnegie Corporation
The three winners who will receive $500,000 to support their academic initiatives are Marie Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, DeRionne Pollard, president of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and Barbara R. Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Two University Leaders Announce They Are Stepping Down From Their Posts
Kay Norton, president of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, announced that she will retire at the end of the current academic year and Mary K. Grant, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will become president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston.
The New Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan
Anna Kirkland, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, was appointed director of the institute, which is interdisciplinary and inclusive of the creative and performing arts as well as the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Sweet Briar College Reconstructs Curriculum and Cost Structure
Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts educational institution for women in Virginia, recently announced that it will adopt a new core curriculum that will focus on women’s leadership. The college will alter its academic calendar to incorporate short-term study opportunities and reduce its comprehensive sticker price to $34,000.
Mary Ryan Appointed the Inaugural Director of the Campus Compact for the Great Plains
The Campus Compact for the Great Plains is a new organization that is a coalition of a group of colleges and universities in Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota that seek to advance the public purposes of higher education. Ryan has spent the last 26 years as an administrator at the University of Kansas.
Spelman College in Atlanta Will Admit Transgender Students in 2018
Spelman College in Atlanta announced that for the class that will enter college in the fall of 2018 it “will consider for admission women students including students who consistently live and self-identify as women, regardless of their gender assignment at birth.” Most of the nation’s leading women’s colleges made similar decisions two or three years ago.
After a Seven-Year Legal Battle, It Appears That Coeducation Will Be Coming to Deep Springs College
After a long legal battle, in April a California appeals court ruled that Deep Springs College could admit men. In June the California Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal. Now the board of trustees has voted to admit women into the 2018 entering class.
Angela Barlow Is the New Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Central Arkansas
Dr. Barlow had been serving as director of the mathematics and science education doctoral program at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Earlier in her career, Dr. Barlow held faculty posts at the University of Mississippi and the University of West Georgia.
College of Idaho President Charlotte Borst Has Stepped Down
Charlotte Borst became the thirteenth president of the College of Idaho July 2015. She is the only woman to serve as president in the 126-year history of the college. But just over two years into her tenure, Dr. Borst has announced that she is stepping down to “pursue other opportunities.”
Beryl McEwen to Serve as Provost at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro
Dr. McEwen has been serving as dean of the College of Business at the university since 2014. Earlier, she was vice provost for strategic planning and institutional effectiveness. Dr. McEwen joined the faculty at the university in 1995.
New Department of Education Report Provides Gender Data on the Nation’s Teachers
According to the report, in the 2015–16 school year, there were an estimated 3,827,100 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. Of these, more than 76 percent were women.
Barbara A. Bichelmeyer to Lead the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Barbara A. Bichelmeyer was named interim chancellor the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2015, Dr. Bichelmeyer was appointed provost and executive vice chancellor at the university. Earlier, she taught for nearly two decades at Indiana University.
The New President of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Jennifer Greer is the associate provost for administration at the University of Alabama. Dr. Greer has been a member of the association since 1993 and was sworn in as president earlier this month at the association’s annual convention in Chicago.
University of Utah Dean Stepping Down to Take Major Humanities Post at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Dianne S. Harris, dean of the College of Humanities and a professor of history at the University of Utah since 2015, will be leaving the university to take on the duties as senior program officer in higher education and scholarships in the humanities at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City.
Michelle Howard-Vital Named to Lead Florida Memorial University
In 2016, Dr. Michelle Howard-Vital was chosen to serve as executive vice president and provost at Florida Memorial University. From 2007 to 2014, she was president of Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Meredith College Fights Highway Improvement Project Adjacent to Its Campus
Meredith College, the liberal arts educational institution for women in Raleigh, North Carolina, is fighting a highway improvement proposal that would use approximately one-fifth of the college’s total acreage. This would limit the college’s ability to expand in the future.
Karen Whitney to Lead the 14-Campus Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
Since 2010, Dr. Whitney has served as president of Clarion University, a campus of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. She had previously announced that she would leave the presidency of Clarion at the end of the 2017-18 academic year.
Barbara Kline Pope Named the Next Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press, established in 1878, fields the largest journal publishing operation of any university press in the United States with more than 85 journals in a wide range of disciplines. The press also publishes about 150 new books each year.
Gail Baker Is the New Provost at the University of San Diego
Since 2006 Dr. Baker had been serving as dean of the College of Communication, Fine Arts, and Media at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Earlier, she was a professor in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.
