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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.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Alice Ogden Bellis Wins “Book of the Year” From the Association of Catholic Publishers
Dr. Bellis currently serves as a professor of Hebrew Bible in the School of Divinity at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Howard faculty, she served first as an assistant, then associate, and twice acting head of staff at Providence Presbyterian Church in Fairfax, Virginia.
Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Elizabeth Adkins-Regan Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Dr. Adkins-Regan joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor of psychology and of neurobiology and behavior in 1975. She retired and was conferred the title of professor emerita in 2018. As a researcher, Dr. Adkins-Regan focuses on the neuroendocrine basis of social behavior.
Nine Women Faculty Receive Promotions and Tenure at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, enrolls about 3,200 women in undergraduate programs and more than 1,500 students in its co-educational graduate programs.
Suzanne Walsh Will Be the Next President of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina
Currently, Walsh serves as the founder and manager of Discerning SEWlutions, a consulting firm in Seattle. Earlier in her career she held various leadership roles with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the Heinz Endowments, and Cuyahoga Community College.
New Report Examines the Gender Makeup of Private Schools in the United States
Overall boys accounted for 51.4 percent of all private school students in the 2017-18 academic year. Only 2 percent of private school students attended all-girl schools and 2.4 percent attended all-boy schools. Girls were 55 percent of the students in early childhood education or pre-schools.
The Percentage of Questions Asked by Women at Academic Conferences Is Lower Than Attendance Would Suggest
Across almost all subdivisions, each with vastly different representation of women, women asked fewer questions than would be expected. Additionally, the research team found that women tended to ask more questions of women speakers, and men asked more questions of male speakers.
Study Finds Lack of Women Tenured Faculty at Doctoral Level Institutions
The study, led by a dean at the University of Kentucky, found that the overall number of women in faculty positions is nearing that of men. However, The results found that only 32.6 percent of tenured faculty at doctoral level institutions are women.
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.
Three Women Who Are Retiring From High-Level University Positions
The women who are leaving their university posts are Kathleen Spehar at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hazel V. Carby at Yale University in Connecticut, and Patricia White at Alcorn State University in Mississippi.
In Memoriam: Adelaide Cromwell, 1919-2019
Dr. Cromwell first joined the Boston University faculty in 1951. Two years later, she co-founded the university’s African Studies Center. In 1969, she founded the university’s African American studies program, the country’s second such program and the first to offer a graduate degree in the subject.
In Memoriam: Byrdie Annette Larkin, 1952-2019
Dr. Larkin joined the faculty at Alabama State University in 1977. At the time, she was the only women faculty member in the department of political science. She taught at the university for 39 years until her retirement in 2016.
Nancy Lynne Westfield Appointed Director of the Wabash Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana
Created in 1995 and sustained by grants from the Lilly Endowment, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion at Wabash College seeks to enhance and strengthen education in North American theological schools, colleges and universities.
Joy Harjo Has Been Selected as the Poet Laureate of the United States
Professor Harjo recently stepped down from her post as the John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence in the department of English at the University of Tennessee. Earlier she served is a professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois. She has also taught at Arizona State University, the University of Colorado, the University of Arizona, and the University of New Mexico.
Five Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Professorships at Major Universities
The five women appointed to endowed chairs are Maria del Guadalupe “Lupe” Davidson at West Virginia University, Yelena Baraz at Princeton University in New Jersey, Susanne Fusso at Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut, Katharine Knowlton at Virginia Tech, and Tina M. Harris at Louisiana State University.
Six Women Scholars Who Have Received Notable Awards
The honorees are Torrey Trust of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Wendy Denmark-Wahnefried of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nicole Ward of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Stacey J.T. Just at Washington State University, Ann Stalter at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and Victoria Raish at Pennsylvania State University.
For Elite University Presidents, The Gender Pay Gap Is Disappearing
The results of a study led by a scholar at the University of Central Florida show that on average there is a 9 percent compensation difference between male and female university presidents, with women receiving less pay than men on average. But at higher status universities, women presidents are receiving similar levels of total compensation as male presidents.
Georgia State Psychologists Identify Best Strategies for Bystander Intervention Against Sexual Misconduct
A new study by led by psychologists at Georgia State University in Atlanta finds that young men can successfully intervene in peer groups to prevent sexual violence against women if they appeal to a shared sense of morality.
University of Alabama Study Finds That Companies With Women CFOs Are Less Likely to Misreport Financial Data
A new study led by an associate professor of management in the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, finds that companies who have a woman as their chief financial officer are less likely to misreport data in financial statements than companies with men as their chief financial officer.
In Memoriam: Niara Sudarkasa, 1938-2019
In 1969, Dr. Sudarkasa joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. She was the first tenured African American faculty member at the university. In 1986, she was appointed the eleventh president of historically Black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and served in that role for 12 years.
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.
Three Women Named to Endowed Professorships at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The three women appointed to named faculty positions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are Grace Bauer in English, Julia McQuillan in sociology, and Kristi Montooth in biological sciences.
Seven Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Positions as Deans
The new deans are Lesley Lokko at City College of New York, Angela Kashuba at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Susan Beth Estes at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Mariette DiChristina at Boston University, Robin L. Hughes at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Melissa Sturge-Apple at the University of Rochester, and Sue Day Perroots at West Virginia University.
Boise State University’s Emily Ruskovich Wins the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award
Emily Ruskovich, an assistant professor in the department of theatre, film, and creative writing at Boise State University, was honored for her novel Idaho. The award is given by the Dublin, Ireland city council and comes with a prize of 100,000 euros.
Vanderbilt University Honors Its Former Dean of the School of Nursing, the Late Colleen Conway-Welch
In 1984, Colleen Conway-Welch became dean of the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University and served in that role for 29 years. In 2013 she retired and was named dean emerita. During her time as dean, Dr. Conway-Welch established an accelerated master’s degree program, a Ph.D. program, and a doctor of nursing practice program.
Three Women Scholars Promoted to Higher Faculty Ranks at Princeton University
Katie Chenoweth has been promoted to associate professor of French and Italian. Andrea Graham has been promoted to professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and Mariangela Lisanti has been promoted to associate professor of physics.
Adding Inclusive Message to Marketing Materials Can Increase Women’s Participation in Online STEM Courses
Researchers from Cornell University and Stanford University found that adding a photo of women and an inclusivity statement to a Facebook ad for a computer science course increased the number of women who clicked on the ad by 26 percent.
Study Finds That Most Women With Cardiovascular Disease Do Not Participate In Regular Physical Activity
Some 61 percent of women with cardiovascular disease who participated in the survey said they did not meet the minimum physical activity guidelines recommended by the American Heart Association. These guidelines call for 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week, or at least 30 minutes of brisk movement per day, five days a week.
Oklahoma State University Scholar Says Artificial Intelligence Can Eliminate Bias in the Hiring Process
Kimberly Houser, a professor of legal studies in the College of Business at Oklahoma State University, argues that using machine decision-making through artificial intelligence (AI) can remove unconscious bias and “noise” from the hiring and promotion process and begin making the workplace reflect a diverse society.
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.
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.
Fordham University Creates Oral History Project on Its First Women Undergraduate Students
Last summer, Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, initiated the Thomas More College Oral History Project in honor of the 50-year anniversary of the first graduating class of Fordham’s liberal arts college for women. The oral histories are now available on the university’s website. The project was supported by Fordham faculty and run by […]
Two Women Scholars Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Prestigious Educational Institutions
Sheila Walker has been named the Laura Vausbinder Hockett Endowed Professor at Scripps College in Claremont, California, and Katerina Clark has been named the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
