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American Political Science Association Honors Rebecca Glazier for Civic and Community Engagement
Rebecca A. Glazier, a political science professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the 2023 Distinguished Award of Civic and Community Engagement from the American Political Science Association. The award honors significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist that merges knowledge and practice […]
University of Rochester Appoints Six Women to Endowed Professorships
RThe six women scholars who have been named to endowed professorships at the University of Rochester are Amy Blatt, Lisa Kitko, Ellen Matson, Jeanine Miklos-Thal, Laurie Steiner, and Holly Watkins.
Anita Olson Gustafson Is the First Woman President of Presbyterian College in South Carolina
Dr. Gustafson was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a professor of history at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Professor Gustafson’s teaching and scholarly interests include American immigration history, Swedish immigration, and the history of American women.
New Women’s Studies Journal Debuts at Case Western Reserve University
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland recently launched the Journal for Women and Gender Centers in Higher Education.
Two Women Presidents Announce They Are Stepping Down From Their Posts in 2024
Sylvia M. Burwell, president of American University in Washington, D.C., will step down from her post at the end of the 2023-24 but will remain at the university as a distinguished lecturer at the university’s Sine Institute of Policy and Politics. Vinita Sauder, the first woman president of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, has announced that she will retire at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
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.
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.
In Memoriam: Mary A. Kilbourne Matossian, 1930-2023
Mary Kilbourn Matossia was a noted historian who was an expert on Armenia. She taught for 31 years at the University of Maryland.
Nine Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Duties
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Mari Yoshihara Wins Three Awards for Her Book on Leonard Bernstein
Mari Yoshihara, a professor of American studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was honored with the Kawai Hayao Prize for Stories, the Japan Essayist Club Award, and the Music Pen Club Japan Award.
Gender Differences in Attrition Rates for Principals at K-12 Public and Private Schools
Overall, in the 2020-21 academic year women made up 56 percent of all public school principals. At private schools, women made up 62.8 percent of all principals. Men were more likely to not serve as a principal a year later in public schools but women were more likely than men to step down as private school principals.
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.
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.
In Memoriam: Christine Lillian Krueger, 1957-2023
During her 35-year tenure at Marquette University, Professor Krueger taught Enlgish and served as director of the University Core of Common Studies and president of the scholarly organization Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. She retired in 2020.
Seven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities
Taking on new duties are Keiki Kawaiʻaeʻa at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Maureen Edobor at the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, Joanna Bosse at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Chileatha Wynn at North Carolina A&T State University, Kimberly Juanita Brown at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Kelly Darnell at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Joli Livaudais at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Syracuse University Historian Tess Murphy Wins Two Book Awards for The Creole Archipelago
Dr. Murphy won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize the French Colonial Historical Society. Her book previously won the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History from the American Historical Association
Cognitive Science Society Recognizes the Work of Berkeley’s Alison Gopnik
Alsion Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California Berkeley, has researched how children learn to understand their own minds and how, given limited evidence, they nevertheless make sense of the world around them. Lately, Dr. Gopnik has increasingly focused on artificial intelligence, which has its roots in cognitive science.
Four Woman Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs
The four women named to endowed chairs are Mapuana Antonio at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Sandra Kingery, a professor of Spanish at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Lorrie Frasure at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rebecca L. Aft at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
More Evidence That Women Are Far Less Likely Than Men to Ask Questions in Academic Settings
A new study finds that women attendees of virtual ophthalmology grand rounds sessions were significantly less likely than their male counterparts to ask questions. And the gender gap is large. On average women asked 1.2 questions per session compared to 3.2 questions by men. Men were three times as likely as women to ask the first question.
University Study Finds a Narrowing of the Gender Gap in Alcohol Related Deaths
Previous research has shown that women are drinking more, engaging in more high-risk drinking, and increasingly developing alcohol-use disorders. But a new study, led by Ibraheem M. Karaye, an assistant professor of population health, and director of the health science program at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, finds a sharp rise in alcohol-related deaths among women.
Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke Is the New Provost at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
For the past two years, Dr. Tomlinson-Clarke has been serving as senior vice provost for academic and faculty affairs. Dr. Tomlinson-Clarke joined the faculty at the university in 1989. Her research focuses on the development of culturally responsive interventions to enhance learning.
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.
New Center for Gender and Sexuality Established at Wayne State University in Detroit
The new center will provide services in five areas: research, teaching, student services, programming and advocacy, and student engagement. Academically, the center will provide a singular space to unify the many scholars who already conduct this work in their own departments.
In Memoriam: Martha Porter Saxton, 1945-2023
Martha Saxon, an author and long-time faculty member at Amherst College in Massachusetts, died on July 18 at her home in Norfolk, Connecticut.
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.
Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles
Taking on new duties or positions are Junko Takeda at Syracuse University in New York, Kimberly Juanita Brown at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Rima Franklin at Virginia Commonwealth University, Belinda Blevins-Knabe at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, Cameron Bushnell at Clemson University in South Carolina, and Michelle Starz-Gaiano at the University of Maryland Baltimore County
Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Colleges and Universities
The new deans are Wiebke Strehl at Newberry College, Sonja Harris-Haywood at Meharry Medical College, Sarah Banet-Weiser at the University of Pennsylvania, Laurie Garrett-Cobbina at the University of Redlands, Mollye Demosthenidy at Newcomb-Tulane College, Jenna Hyatt at Washington State University, Deleise Wilson at Polk State College, and Mary Gallant at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships
The four women appointed to named chairs are Margarita Estévez-Abe at Syracuse University in New York, Tonya Pinkins at Fordham College at Lincoln Center in New York City, Limor Golan at Washington University in St. Louis, and Marcia Chatelain at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Gender Differences in Financial Aid Awards
Despite the fact that women were more likely than men to receive grants, on average women received lower amounts. The average grant given to women was $8,900 compared to $9,700 for men. The average loan amounts were nearly equal for men and women students.
A Change in Leadership at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey
Dr. Passerini has served as provost and executive vice president at Seton Hall since June 2020. Previously, she served as the Lesley H. and William L. Collins Distinguished Chair and dean of the Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Earlier, she was dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
Women of Color Are Scarce in STEM Higher Education and the Workforce
A new report from The Education Trust shows that vast disparities in attainment by race, ethnicity, and gender persist in STEM education and employment, thereby limiting access and opportunities for social and economic mobility for some — particularly women and people of color.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Weekly Earnings
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the median weekly earnings of the nation’s 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,100 in the second quarter of 2023. But there is a persisting gender gap in earnings. Women had median weekly earnings of $993, or 84.1 percent of the $1,181 median for men.
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.
Mississippi State’s Becky Hagenston Wins Short Story Prize
Becky Hagenston, a professor of English at Mississippi State University, won Story magazine’s Story Foundation Prize for her work “Woman of the House.” Professor Hagenston drew inspiration for “Woman of the House” from stories her in-laws shared about living in Rapid City, South Dakota, in the early 1970s.
