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Woman Chosen to Head Higher Education Division in Washington

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Woman Chosen to Head Higher Education Division in Washington

The Obama administration has chosen Debra Saunders-White as the new deputy assistant secretary of education for higher education programs. Since 2006 Saunders-White has served as vice chancellor for information technology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Previously, she was vice president of technology and chief information officer at Hampton University in Virginia.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Dr. Saunders-White holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary and an educational doctorate from George Washington University.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

 

Women Are Closing the Gender Gap in Doctoral Awards

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Women Are Closing the Gender Gap in Doctoral Awards

Thirty years ago women earned less than one third of all doctoral degrees awarded by U.S. universities. In 2009, the latest year complete data is available, women earned 23,190 doctorates. That was 46.8 percent of all doctoral degrees awarded in 2009. That year women earned more doctorates than men in the life sciences, the humanities, the social sciences, and education.

In 2009 women earned less than one third of all doctorates in the physical sciences and only one fifth of all doctorates in engineering.

Women Are Projected to Increase Their Share of Total Enrollments in American Higher Education

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New data from the U.S. Department of Education estimates that by the year 2019 there will be 13,224,000 American women enrolled in higher education. That is an increase of 18 percent from the number of women enrolled today. The data shows that male enrollments are expected to increase by slightly under 8 percent during the period.

Today, women make up 56.8 percent of all enrollments in American higher education. The projections show that in 2019, women will comprise 59.0 percent of all enrollments.

 

Notable Appointments of Women in Higher Education

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Notable Appointments of Women in Higher Education

Ӣ This July Nancy Krippel will become provost at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. She currently is dean of adult and graduate studies at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.

Dr. Krippel holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. Her academic focus is eighteenth-century English novels.

Ӣ Janet Clark was named vice president for academic affairs at Saint Mary-of-the Wood College in Indiana. She has served in the position on an interim basis since last July and has been on the faculty of the college since 2003.

Dr. Clark is a graduate of Millikin University and holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Purdue University. She holds 13 U.S. patents in gas conversion and low-sulfur fuels.

 

University of Texas Sociologist Named to Head Prestigious Journal

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University of Texas Sociologist Named to Head Prestigious Journal

Debra J. Umberson, professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The quarterly journal, founded in 1960, is one of the most prestigious and widely respected publications in the field of sociology.

Dr. Umberson earned bachelor’s and master’s of social work degrees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Vanderbilt University.

Notable Awards to Women in Higher Education

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Notable Awards to Women in Higher Education

”¢ Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, professor emerita of philosophy at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, was the recipient of the 2011 Graven Award from the Judge Henry N. and Helen T. Graven Award for the Ministry of the Laity. Professor Rodeheffer was honored for her work at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in downtown Rochester, Minnesota.

Ӣ Barbara-Jayne Lewthwaite, president of Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, received the Garden State Woman of the Year Award for education by the magazine Garden State Woman.

Ӣ Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, was selected to give the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities by the National Endowment of the Humanities. The lecture will take place at the Kennedy Center in Washington on May 2.

President Faust is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ӣ Susan Howe is the winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry from the Yale University Library. The award is given for the best book of poetry published in the past two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry.

Ӣ Deborah Eisenberg, a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, received the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She was honored for her book, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.

Ӣ Barbara E. Goodman, professor of physiology at the University of South Dakota, received the 2011 Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Educator of the Year Award from the American Physiology Society.

Dr. Goodman is a graduate of Duke University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

 

Notable Appointments of Women in Higher Education

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Notable Appointments of Women in Higher Education

”¢ Susan L. Gibbons was named university librarian at Yale, effective July 1. She is currently vice provost and dean of libraries at the University of Rochester. Gibbons is a 1992 graduate of the University of Delaware. She holds master’s degrees in library science and history from Indiana University, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and an educational doctorate from the University of Rochester.

Ӣ Lisa Mazzocco was appointed chief investment officer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has been serving as chief investment officer for the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. Mazzocco holds an MBA from California State Polytechnic Institute in Pomona.

”¢ Phyllis Worthy Dawkins was promoted to senior vice president and provost at Dillard University in New Orleans, effective in May. She currently is serving as associate provost. Dr. Dawkins is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

New Women Deans in Higher Education

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New Women Deans in Higher Education

Ӣ Linda Kirk Fox was named dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia. She is currently professor and associate dean at the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University.

Dr. Fox holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Oregon State University.

Ӣ Shauna T. Mendini was appointed dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts at Southern Utah University in Cedar City. She has served as interim dean for the past year. Dean Mendini has been on the faculty of the university for 18 years.

Ӣ Mary Susan Fishbaugh is the new dean of the College of Education at the Montana State University in Billings. She has been interim dean for five years.

Dr. Fishbaugh holds a master’s degree from Indiana University and a doctorate from the University of Houston.

Ӣ Amber D. Miller is the new dean of science at Columbia University. She is the Walter LeCroy Jr. Associate Professor of Physics at the university.

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dean Miller earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University.

Ӣ Margaret Crocco, currently chair of the department of arts and humanities at Teachers College of Columbia University, was named the 15th dean of the College of Education at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Crocco is a graduate of Georgetown University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ӣ Victoria Niederhauser was appointed dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Currently, she is associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii.

Dr. Niederhauser is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree from Boston College and a doctorate in public health from the University of Hawaii.

State Department Teams Up With Five Leading Women’s Colleges

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State Department Teams Up With Five Leading Women’s Colleges
Secretary Clinton

The U.S. State Department has entered into an agreement with five prestigious women’s colleges to increase the number of students preparing for careers in the foreign service. The Women and Public Service Initiative will hold a conference this fall at Bryn Mawr College and will develop a political leadership institute to train young women for public service. Participating colleges in addition to Bryn Mawr are Wellesley College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Barnard College.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a graduate of Wellesley College.

 

Conservative Women’s Network Is Looking for “A Few Good Men”

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Conservative Women’s Network Is Looking for “A Few Good Men”

The Network for Enlightened Women bills itself as the “nation’s premier organization for culturally conservative women. Started as a book club at the University of Virginia in 2004, NeW cultivates a community of conservative women and expands intellectual diversity on college campuses.”

The network is currently holding its Gentleman’s Showcase. It invites women members to nominate men who “stand against cultural norms and demonstrate gentlemanly behavior.” The group defines gentlemanly behavior as:

  • A gentleman opens your door for you, without expecting anything in return.
  • A gentleman shovels his neighbor’s car out of the snow.
  • A gentleman helps an older woman carry her groceries.
  • A gentleman comes alongside you as a leader, not to demand submission, but to earn respect by giving love.
  • A gentleman treats you like the lady you are.
  • A gentleman is confident, but not conceited.

Women Named College or University Presidents

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Women Named College or University Presidents

Ӣ Mary Kay Hunt was named president of Lexington College in Chicago, Illinois. She is currently serving as academic dean of the college. Hunt is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. She is completing work on a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

”¢ Mary B. Marcy was appointed the ninth president of Dominican University of California in San Rafael. Currently she is provost and vice president at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Dr. Marcy is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford.

”¢ Lisa Ann Plowfield will be the new chancellor of the York campus of Pennsylvania State University. She is now dean and professor at the College of Nursing of Florida State University in Tallahassee. Dr. Plowfield is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson University. She holds a master’s degree in trauma and critical care nursing from the University of Maryland and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Virginia.

”¢ Mary Ellen Mazey has been selected as the 11th president of Bowling Green”ˆState University in Ohio. She is currently provost and vice president of academic affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. Dr. Mazey holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Virginia University. She earned a Ph.D. in urban geography at the University of Cincinnati.

”¢ Katherine P. Douglas was appointed president of Corning Community College in New York. She is currently vice president of academic affairs at Sussex County Community College in Newton, New Jersey. Dr. Douglas holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

 

 

Women Are Underrepresented in Student Government

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Women now make up a healthy majority of all enrollments in higher education. But women continue to be underrepresented in student government positions. According to the American Student Government Association, about 40 percent of student body presidents at U.S. colleges and universities are women. The shortfall is even greater at the nation’s most prestigious schools. Less than a third of student body presidents at the nation’s 50 highest-ranked colleges are women.

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