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Scholars Examine Challenges of Nurses Who Return Home From Combat Zones
A new book examines the challenges faced by military nurses when they return home from duty in war zones.
Yale’s Alanna Schepartz Is the New Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Biochemistry
Professor Schepartz’s research focuses on understanding how macromolecular interactions control sophisticated biological processes such as information transfer, intracellular trafficking, and compartmentalization.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Zora Mulligan Named Commissioner of the Missouri Department of Higher Education
Zora Mulligan has been serving as chief of staff for the president of the University of Missouri System. She has served in that role since 2014. From 2010 to 2014, she was the executive director of the Missouri Community College System.
Website Names the Nation’s 50 Best Women’s Studies Programs
Harvard and Yale finished in the top two spots in the rankings followed by seven high-ranking and wealthy liberals arts colleges. Only three women’s colleges made the list of the top 50 women’s studies programs.
A Trio of Women Faculty Members Honored With Prestigious Awards
The three women scholars who won notable honors are Gul E. Kremer, a professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Iowa State University, Jessica Blois, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Merced, and Jeanna Matthews, an associate professor of computer science at Clarkson University in New York.
New Federal Report Documents the Very Low Wages of the Largely Female Preschool Workforce
According to the report, preschool teachers earn annual wages that average about $28,500. This is only 55 percent of the average wage of kindergarten teachers. Some 97 percent of all early childhood educators are women.
In Memoriam: Marilyn Hadley Damon, 1924-2016
After graduation from college in 1945, Marilyn Damon taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the University of Maryland. She joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1948 and taught there until 1964.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
From time to time, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Thirteen Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
In Memoriam: Stella Clifford Gray, 1919-2016
A native of Maine, Stella Gray began teaching at what is now the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1958. Dr. Gray taught English composition, speech, and literature and was chair of the Humanities Division at the university. The university has established the Stella C. Gray Teaching Excellence Award in her honor.
Nineteen Women Who Will Be Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The Higher Education Ties of the World’s Oldest American Women
The last American born in the nineteenth century died on May 12. Susannah Muschatt-Jones, a granddaughter of slaves, died in New York City at the age of 116. Unable to afford college tuition herself, later in life she set up a college scholarship fund for students in financial need.
Why Women Do Better in College Than Their SAT or ACT Scores Predict
Researchers at the University of Minnesota found that women tended to take courses that were a bit easier than the courses taken by men. But a far more significant contributing factor to women’s better grade point average was the fact that women tended to be more conscientious than men. In short, women are better students than men.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Three Women Among the 12 Winners of the 2016 Hertz Fellowships
Winners of the prestigious fellowships are awarded full tuition in Ph.D. programs for five years. And they receive an annual stipend. Preference is given to scholars who have a stated preference to pursue science in the public interest.
Lehigh University Examines the Role of Pornography in Forming Opinions on Gender Violence
The Office of Gender Violence Education and Support at Lehigh University in Bethlehem has developed a new program that allows students to examine the role of pornography in shaping beliefs and behaviors about sexual relations.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
From time to time, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
In Memoriam: Emily Eugenia Summer, 1923-2016
Eugenia Summer, an esteemed painter and sculptor, taught for 38 years at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. In 2002, the university established the Eugenia Summer Gallery in the Fine Arts Building on campus in her honor.
Three Women Scholars Announce Their Retirements From University Posts
The three women scholars who have announced their retirements are Dianne Martin at George Washington University, Marsha Ternus at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and Elizabeth A. Williams at Oklahoma State University.
Law Professor Wins Book Award from the Law and Society Association
Felice Batlan is a professor of law and the associate dean for faculty at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She was honored for her book Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945.
New Global Study Finds a Closing Gender Gap in Education Is Not Closing the Economic Gender Gap
Worldwide women are closing the gender gap in education. But a new study by economist Stephanie Seguino of the University of Vermont finds that these educational gains have failed to close the gender gap in income or political representation.
The New President of Virginia University of Lynchburg
Kathy C. Franklin was named the 18th president of what is now Virginia University of Lynchburg. Founded in 1886, the educational institution’s original name was the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary. Dr. Franklin has been interim president since last October and earlier was provost at the university.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
From time to time, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Yale Honors the First Seven Women to Earn Ph.Ds at the University
Yale University recently honored the first women to earn Ph.D.s at the educational institution by unveiling portraits of the scholars that will be permanently displayed on campus. The women all earned their doctoral degree in 1894.
University of Georgia Study Links Narcissism to Propensity for Sexual Assault
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia found that college-age men who exhibited traits of pathological narcissism were more likely to have committed sexual assault.
Catharine Hill Announces She Will Step Down Next Year From Presidency of Vassar College
Before becoming the tenth president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2006, Dr. Hill was provost at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She joined the economics faculty at Williams in 1985.
Student Journalists Find a Huge Gender Gap in Faculty Salaries at the University of Virginia
Reporters for the student newspaper at the University of Virginia found only two women among the 20 highest-paid employees of the university. Teresa Sullivan, president of the university was the fifth highest-paid employee.
Online Articles That May Be of Interest to WIAReport Readers
From time to time, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Seven Women in Higher Education Who Are Stepping Down From Their Posts
They are: Debra Daniels at Joliet Junior College, Lucile C. Jones of CalTech, who is retiring from the USGS, Karen E. Campbell of Vanderbilt University, Virginia Caples of Alabama A&M University, Janet Corson-Rikert of Cornell University, Fay S. Adams of the University of Tennessee, and Catherine M. O’Neill of the University of New Mexico-Taos.
Cynthia Azari Appointed President of Oxnard College in California
Dr. Azari has been serving as interim president at Fresno City College. She was president of Fresno City College form 2009 to 2011 and then served as president of Riverside City College in California. Earlier in her career, she was president of Butler County Community College in Pennsylvania.
In Memoriam: Barbara Mary Rosenthal Almond, 1938-2016
Dr. Almond taught psychiatry at Stanford University and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also an author and practiced psychiatry in Palo Alto, California, for more than 40 years.
Chatham University, Which Just Went Co-Educational, Hires a Man as President
In the fall of 2015, Chatham University in Pittsburgh admitted men to its traditional undergraduate programs for the first time. Enrollment in the entering class doubled from the year earlier. Now a man has been named the next president of the former women’s college.
Four Women Scholars Granted Tenure at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee
The women scholars awarded tenure at Lee University are Daniela Augustine in theological studies, Ingrid Hart in accounting, Mary McCampbell in humanities, and Debra Mimbs in mathematics. The tenure appointments are effective on August 1.
New UCLA Report Provides a Roadmap for Increasing Women in High-Tech Careers
The new report is a compilation of feedback from attendees of the 2015 Women in Tech conference held at the University of California, Los Angeles. While the report offers a number of recommendations, the authors state that an enhanced mentoring program may be the best strategy for increasing the number of women in information technology fields.
