In 2014, women held only 31 percent of all full professorships at colleges and universities in the United States. Women make less than men at all faculty levels. And women are less than 30 percent of all college and university presidents.
The survey found that today, women are 41 percent of the chief academic officers, 28 percent of the deans of academic colleges, and 36 percent of executive vice presidents.
Rhe Spectrum Executive Leadership Program is an initiative that has the goal of making the leadership of higher education more representative of the people it serves.
Ruth Simmons of Brown University and Beverly Daniel Tatum of Spelman College were honored at the Women's Leadership Dinner at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in Los Angeles.
