The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the University of Vermont in Burlington has been suspended after it produced a survey that asked respondents that if they could rape someone, who would they like the victim to be.
A university spokesperson called the survey “incredibly offensive and inappropriate.”
An online petition calling for the university to shut down the fraternity quickly generated more than 3,000 signatures.
Mary Dekker Nettleman has been named dean of the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. She will also hold the title of vice president for health affairs. Since 2003, Dr. Nettleman has been the chair of the department of medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. Prior to that, she taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Iowa College of Medicine. She is currently conducting research on women’s health issues under a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Nettleman is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Medical School and completed her residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Indiana University. She also holds a master’s degree in preventive medicine/epidemiology from the the University of Iowa.
Her appointment is effective on April 2, 2012.
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control Prevention in Atlanta has found that 18.3 percent of all American women report having been raped during their lifetime. Thus, there are approximately 21.8 million American women who have been raped.
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey found that 29.2 percent of all women in Alaska reported having been raped. Oregon had the second highest percentage at 27.2. The lowest rate was in the state of Virginia where 11.4 percent of all women reported having been raped at one point during their lifetime.
The survey also asked women about sexual violence other than rape. More than 44 percent of all women reported that they had been victims of some type of sexual violence other than rape. Once again, the highest rate was in Alaska. In Oregon, New Hampshire, Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington, more than half of all women reported being victims of sexual violence. The lowest rate was in Louisiana where 29 percent of all women said they had been victims over the course of their lifetime.
The data can be accessed here.
The board of supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System has named Andrea Lewis Miller chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. The college has about 8,300 students.
Since 2006, Dr. Miller has been serving as chancellor of Sowela Technical Community College in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Previously, she was provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, administration, and planning at Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Dr. Miller holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Atlanta University. She did postdoctoral research in the department of anatomy at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Scientists at the University of Georgia and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have discovered what may be a dramatic breakthrough in efforts to fight breast cancer. The researchers have developed a vaccine that successfully reduced tumors in mice.
Dr. Sandra Gendler, Grohne Professor of Therapeutics for Cancer Research at the Mayo Clinic, developed special mice for the study whose tumors mimic those of human breast and pancreatic cancer patients. Dr. Gedgler states, “This is the first time that a vaccine has been developed that trains the immune system to distinguish and kill cancer cells based on their different sugar structures.” In this research on the new vaccine, tumor size in mice was reduced by an average of 80 percent.
Dr. Gendler and her colleague Geert-Jan Boons, the Franklin Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, are currently testing the vaccine’s effectiveness against human cancer cells in a laboratory setting. They hope they can begin clinical trials on human subjects by the end of 2013.
The findings were reported online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Florida International University in Miami received a three-year, $573,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to increase opportunities for women faculty in the sciences and mathematics. The grant will fund the Awareness, Commitment and Empowerment (ACE) of Women Scientists at FIU project. The program, which draws on successful strategies developed at the University of Michigan, supports women faculty through networking, cross disciplinary collaborations and research, mentoring, and peer learning initiatives.
The grant program is led by Suzanna Rose, executive director of the School of Integrated Science and Humanity and professor of psychology and professor of women’s studies. “The grant provides a great opportunity to implement best practices that have been successful elsewhere in recruiting excellent women and minorities into faculty positions in the sciences,” explains Rose. “This will increase the talent pool and draw underrepresented students and faculty into the sciences.”
Professor Rose holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.
The Association for Computer Machinery is an educational and scientific society uniting the world’s computing educators, researchers and professionals. The organization has more than 96,000 members come from industry, academia, and government institutions around the world.
Recently 46 individuals were named ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. In making the announcement, Alain Chesnais, president of ACM, said, “These women and men, who are some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in computer science and engineering, are changing how the world lives and works. They have mastered the tools of computing and computer science to address the many significant challenges that confront populations across the globe. These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better — in healthcare, communications, cybersecurity, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment.”
The 46 new fellows will be honored at the ACM’s annual awards banquet in San Francisco next June. Among the 46 new fellows, only eight are women. One of the women is a researcher at Microsoft Inc. The other seven have ties to academic institutions.
Susan Landau is a visiting scholar in the department of computer science at Harvard University. She previously taught at Wesleyan University and the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of the book, Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (MIT Press). Dr. Landau is a graduate of Princeton University. She holds a master’s degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is being honored by the ACM for “public policy leadership in security and privacy.”
Ming C. Lin is the John R. and Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. She is being honored for “contributions to geometric modeling and computer graphics.”
Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu is the Andrew Jennings Professor of Computing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Alberta. She is being honored by ACM for “contributions to database management systems.”
Linda R. Petzold is a professor of mechanical and environmental engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Dr. Petzold is being honored for “contributions to computational science.” A video of Dr. Petzold discussing her work can be seen here.
Martha E. Pollack is a professor of computer science and engineering and vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs at the University of Michigan. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is being honored for “contributions to planning systems and for service to the computing community.”
Margo Seltzer is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. She is being honored for “contributions to data management and computing systems.”
Diane L. Souvaine is a professor of computer science at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and holds two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University. She was selected as a fellow of the ACM for “contributions to computational geometry and for service on behalf of the computing community.”
The University of Washington recently launched it Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children. The center will be directed by Grace John-Stewart, a professor of epidemiology, pediatrics, and global health. She states that “using an integrated life-cycle approach has potential to identify effective strategies to improve health for all three groups.”
Dr. John-Stewart completed her medical training at the University of Michigan. She holds a master of public health degree and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington.
Debra Daniels has been selected as the eighth president of Joliet Junior College in Illinois. The appointment is effective on March 1.
Gena Proulx, who was president of the college since 2006, died in August after a battle with cancer. She was Joliet’s first woman president.
Dr. Daniels currently serves as the president of San Bernardino College in California. Previously, she was district vice president for academics and student services for Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida.
Dr. Daniels is a graduate of Ferris State University in Michigan and holds a master’s degree and an educational doctorate from the University of Illinois.
Preliminary data from the National Science Foundation shows that in 2010, 22,505 doctorates were awarded at U.S. universities to women. Men earned 25,564 doctorates at U.S. universities. Therefore, women earned 46.8 percent of all doctorates awarded by U.S. universities. These doctoral award figures include foreign recipients, a group which tends to have a high concentration of males.
The number of women earning doctorates is down from 23,186 in 2009. This is a decrease of about 3 percent.
Part of the decline may be the result of a reclassification of earned doctorates in the field of education. In 2010, educational doctorate programs at 77 universities were reclassified from research doctorates to professional doctorates. Beginning with 2010, the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates will not include doctorates from the reclassified Ed.D. programs. In past years, women have made up a large segment of educational doctorate recipients. So, undoubtedly, the reclassification contributed to the decrease in women doctorates in this year’s survey.
But not all the drop can be attributed to the reclassification of some educational doctorate programs. In 2010, there was a slight drop in the number of women earning doctorates in science and engineering fields.
Sharon L. Davies, the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor at the Moritz College of Law of Ohio State University in Columbus, was named executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the university. The institute was founded in 2003 and seeks to conduct research on racial and ethnic disparities and to develop strategies to bring about a more equitable society. Professor Davies will continue to teach at the law school as she assumes her new duties.
Professor Davies is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she majored in political science. She completed her legal training at the Columbia University School of Law, where she was the notes and comments editor for the Columbia Law Review. She joined the faculty of the Moritz College of Law in 1995.
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North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro has awarded an honorary doctorate to Donna Brazile, Democratic Party official, educator, author, and political pundit. The award was made at the university’s 2011 fall commencement exercises.
Brazile is vice chair of voter registration and participation for the Democratic National Committee, works as a political commentator for CNN and ABC, and has a syndicated newspaper column. She was the campaign manager for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race. Brazille is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the author of Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
Mary Papazian, provost and senior vice president at Lehman College in The Bronx, New York, has been selected as the next president of Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She has been provost at Lehman College since July 2007. Previously, she was dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Dr. Papazian is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. She also earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English literature at UCLA.
The University of Nebraska has announced four finalists for the position of dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.
One of the four candidates is a woman. Heather Landes is now the associate dean at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She is the former assistant dean for admission and financial aid at the Northwestern University School of Music.
Dr. Landes is a graduate of the University of Illinois. She holds a master’s degree in flute performance from Northwestern University and a doctorate in music education from Loyola University of Chicago.
The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has named five finalists to replace university president David Schmidly when he steps down in June 2012. Three of the candidates are women.
Meredith Hay is a special advisor to the chair for strategic initiatives of the Arizona Board of Regents. She was executive vice president and provost at the University of Arizona from 2008 to August 2011. Previously, she was vice president for research at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Hay is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver. She holds a master’s degree in neurobiology from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. in cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio.
Elizabeth Hoffman is executive vice president and provost at Iowa State University. She is the former president of the University of Colorado and earlier served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University.
Dr. Hoffman is a graduate of Smith College. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a second Ph.D. in economics from CalTech.
Elsa A. Murano is professor and president emerita at Texas A&M University. She joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1995 but took a leave of absence to serve in the Bush administration as undersecretary of agriculture for food safety. In 2005, she returned to Texas A&M as dean and vice chancellor of agriculture and life sciences. In 2008 she was named the first woman president of the university.
Dr. Murano is a graduate of Florida International University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in food science and technology from Virginia Tech.
An announcement of the new president is expected in January.
Update (1-4-12): None of these three women were chosen as the new president.
The College of Business Administration at Northeastern University in Boston has announced the addition of seven new full-time faculty members. Three of the new faculty members are women.
C. Annique Un was named associate professor of international business and strategy. She has previously taught at Cornell and the University of South Carolina. Dr. Un holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. She earned a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yu Xia was appointed associate professor of information, operations, and analysis. She is a graduate of Huazhongu University and holds a master’s degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Dr. Xia earned a Ph.D. in statistics at Washington State University.
Tiantian Gu is a new assistant professor of finance at the College of Business. She earned a Ph.D. in finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In addition, the college announced that Marjorie Platt, who has been a faculty member for 29 years, has been named senior associate dean and dean of the faculty. Professor Platt is a graduate of Northwestern University. She holds an MBA from Babson College and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
P. Joan Poor was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, effective July 1, 2012. She will also be a professor of natural resources and environmental economics. Dr. Poor currently serves as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. Prior to becoming dean at Bemidji State in 2010, she was a tenured associated professor of economics at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland.
Dr. Poor holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Manitoba. She earned a Ph.D. in natural resource/environmental economics at the University of Nebraska.
Women’s college basketball has become very popular. Arenas across the country are filled with fans and women’s basketball games are frequently seen on national television. More than 4,300 women are currently on athletic scholarships to play basketball at NCAA Division I colleges and universities. Tens of thousands more play at smaller four-year colleges and universities, at community colleges, and in intramural college programs.
Here is an interesting video from Smith College that relates the early origins of women’s college basketball.
Irene Fonseca, the Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The international organization has 13,000 individual members and 500 institutional members. She is only the second women to be elected president of SIAM. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect and a two-year term as president.
A native of Portugal, Dr. Fonseca holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1987.
Anna F. Dominiczak, the Regius Professor of Medicine and vice principal and director of the College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, was named editor-in-chief of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. The journal is published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer. She is the first editor-in-chief of the journal to be based in Europe. Dr. Dominiczak previously was editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Science.
A graduate of the Medical College in Gdansk, Poland, Dr. Dominiczak has been affiliated with the University of Glasgow since 1992.
Lauren Robel, dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, has been named interim provost of Indiana University. The current provost, Karen Hanson, is leaving the university on January 31 to become provost at the University of Minnesota.
Dean Robel is a graduate of Auburn University in Alabama and a summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law. She has been on the faculty at Indiana University since 1985 and has been dean of the law school since 2003. Robel is president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.
Noreen Mokuau was appointed dean of the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has been serving as a professor and since July 2010 interim dean at the school. Her research is concentrated on health disparities between Native Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Islander populations and on care giving issues for culturally diverse elderly populations.
Dr. Mokuau holds a bachelor’s degree and a master of social work degree from University of Hawaii and a doctorate in social welfare from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Nancy K. Napier, a professor in the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University in Idaho, received the Medal of Honor from the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training in Hanoi. The award is the highest honor for contributions to education given by the Southeast Asian nation.
Professor Napier was honored for her work at the National Economics University in Hanoi and for her efforts to bring Vietnamese MBA students to Boise State.
Dr. Napier, who holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, is the author of Insight: Encouraging Aha Moments for Organizational Success (Praeger, 2010). The book has been translated into Vietnamese.
Kimberly A. Maynard is the first Mansfield Fellow in International Affairs at the University of Montana. Dr. Maynard is a consultant and researcher on issues of international development and humanitarian and emergency relief aid. She was done work for the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the United Nations. Previously, she taught at American University and Johns Hopkins University.
At the University of Montana, she will give lectures, teach, lead workshops, conduct research, and initiate special projects focusing on international relations.
Karen Hanson, executive vice president and provost at Indiana University in Bloomington, received the 2011 Philip Quinn Prize for Service to Philosophy and Philosophers from the American Philosophical Association. She has served as interim chair of the APA board and in several other leadership positions in the organization. She has also been on the editorial board of the American Philosophical Quarterly.
Dr. Hanson has served in her present position at Indiana University since 2007 but in February she will become provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Hanson is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Erica Lorraine Williams, assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College in Atlanta, received the First Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press.
Dr. Williams book, Ambiguous Entanglements: Sex, Race, and Tourism in Bahia, will be published by the University of Illinois Press. The book is based on her Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology at Stanford University.
Deanna Haunsperger, professor of mathematics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, is the recipient of the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women from the Association of Women in Mathematics.
The award is named after Dr. Humphreys who earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1935 at the age of 23. She went on to teach for more than three decades at what is now Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
Ilona M. Figat, an enterprise consultant at the Delaware Center for Enterprise Development at Delaware State University was named the 2011 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator at the 29th annual Entrepreneurship Education Forum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She is launching a new project in 2012 that will transport a mobile training classroom to rural and underserved areas that will be used to provide entrepreneurship training classes.
Sherrill Redmon, who has served since 1993 as director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Veteran Feminists of America. The Sophia Smith Collection is an archive of papers, documents, and other materials relating to the history and sociology of women in the United States.
CarolAnn Peterson, adjunct associate professor of social work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, received the Humanitarian Award from Face Forward, a nonprofit organization that finances reconstructive surgeries for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence.
Peterson is the founder of Peterson Professional Alliance, a consulting firm that helps corporations recognize and understand the impact of domestic violence on their employees. She is currently at work on a textbook and is constructing the curriculum for an online course in the master of social work program at USC.
In 1953 the Marshall Scholarships program was established by an act of the British Parliament. Funded by the British government, the program is a national gesture of thanks to the American people for aid received under the Marshall Plan, the U.S.-financed program that led to the reconstruction of Europe after World War II.
The scholarships provide funds for two years of study at a British university, travel, living expenses, and a book allowance. Applicants must earn a degree at an American college or university with a minimum of a 3.7 grade point average. Up to 40 Marshall scholarships can be given out each year. This year the Marshall Foundation selected 36 winners. Seventeen are women. Four of the women are currently seniors at Princeton University.
Listed below are the 17 women selected as 2012 Marshall Scholars and their undergraduate institutions.
Jennifer L. Robinson was named director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration in the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. She has been interim director of the center for the past year and has been on the university staff since 2005.
Dr. Robinson holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Utah. She is the co-author of Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and the co-editor of the book, The Rise of the West in Presidential Elections (University of Utah Press, 2010).
Mahnaz Mahdavi was appointed as the first Ann F. Kaplan Director of the Center for Women & Financial Independence at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dr. Mahdavi, who is a professor of economics at Smith, has led the center since its inception a decade ago. The new endowed directorship was established by a contribution from Goldman Sachs in honor of Ann Kaplan who sits on the company’s board of directors and is a Smith alumna and chair of the Circle Financial Group.
Dr. Mahdavi holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Nancy Morrow-Howell was named director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging at Washington University in St. Louis, effective January 1. She is the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work at the university. She is the co-editor of Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Dr. Morrow-Howell has been on the Washington University faculty since 1987. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jill D. Friedman was named vice chancellor for public affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, effective January 1. She has been serving as senior vice president and partner at Fleishman-Hillard’s world headquarters in St. Louis. She is the former deputy chief of staff for the late Missouri governer, Mel Carnahan.
Friedman is a graduate of the University of Vermont and holds an MBA from the Olin Business School at Washington University.
Lakeisha Mayes is the new director of recruitment and admissions at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She was an early college awareness advisor for the ACCESS College Foundation. Previously, she was the acting director of undergraduate admissions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
Mayes holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Old Dominion University.
Darlene Trew Crist was named director of news and communications at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the former communications director for the Census of Marine Life, a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She also founded and directed Crist Communications, an editorial services firm.
Crist is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science and environmental studies.
Deborah Newsom was appointed vice president of business and finance/treasurer at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The appointment is effective June 1, 2012. She has been serving for the past eight years as vice president for financial affairs and treasurer at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.
A certified public accountant, Newsom holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Eastern Kentucky University.
Keri D. Young was named director of career serviecs at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She was assistant director of recruitment operations in the graduate career service center at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.
Young holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Carrie Grogan Abbott is the new director of the Office of First-Year and Transfer Programs at Syracuse University in New York. She was the associate director of admissions and student services for Syracuse University Abroad.
Abbott is a graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She holds a master’s degree in higher education from Syracuse University.
Terricita E. Sass was named assistant vice president for enrollment management at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She has been on the staff of the university since 1988, most recently as interim executive director for enrollment management.
A graduate of Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina, Sass earned a master’s degree in urban affairs from Norfolk State University.
Mary Catherine Bateson is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Positive Aging from Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Bateson, the daughter of Margaret Mead, is the Clarence H. Robinson Professor Emerita in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. For the past five years she has been a visiting scholar at the Center of Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College. Her latest book is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf, 2010).
Professor Bateson has also taught at Harvard University and Northeastern University. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Karla Hull was appointed dean of the Dewar College of Education at Valdosta State University in Georgia. She has been serving as interim dean since July. She has been on the staff at the university for 15 years, serving as assistant vice president of research from 2008 to 2011.
In accepting the appointment, Dr. Hull said, “I am committed to ensuring that the faculty and students in the Dewar College of Education have a positive impact on our community and region, through our service, partnerships and research. Together we can prepare excellent professionals and serve the needs of our local schools, clinics and allied health care providers.”
Dean Hull holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in speech/language pathology from Arizona State University. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Vermont.
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A. Clayton Spencer was named president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, effective July 1, 2012. She is currently vice president for policy at Harvard University. Before coming to Harvard 15 years ago, she was chief education counsel in the U.S. Senate, working for the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Dr. Spencer is a native of North Carolina. Her father served as president of Mary Baldwin College and Davidson College. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire and went on to complete undergraduate study at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she graduated magna cum laude. Dr. Spencer earned a second bachelor’s degree at Oxford University and a master’s degree in religion from Harvard University. She is a graduate of Yale Law School where she was the editor of the Yale Law Journal.
