All Entries Tagged With: "Hunter College"
Nancy Cantor Named President of Hunter College in New York
Dr. Cantor says she is “eager to collaborate with communities across New York City to highlight how higher education can answer the call of what the public needs, now and going forward.”
Suri Duitch Is the New Leader of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn
Most recently, Dr. Duitch served as the dean and vice president for academic innovation at Tulane University School of Professional Advancement in New Orleans. Before her time at Tulane, Dr. Duitch worked at the Office of Academic Affairs for a decade at the City University of New York.
In Memoriam: Estelle Ackerman Fishbein, 1934-2023
Estelle Fishbein, the first woman to serve as general counsel at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Fishbein retired as general counsel in 2004, after 29 years in the post.
In Memoriam: Carol Robles-Román, 1962-2023
One of the two longest-serving deputy mayors in the history of the city of New York, Robles-Román served as general counsel to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during his 12 years in office. Robles-Román also served on the City University of New York board of trustees for 14 years and was most recently general counsel and dean of the faculty at Hunter College in New York City.
In Memoriam: Ulku Ulkusal Bates, 1938-2023
A native of Romania, Dr. Bates began teaching career at Oakland University in Michigan, and the University of Michigan, where she taught Islamic and Chinese art history. In 1971, she joined the faculty at Hunter College in New York City and served on the faculty there for 37 years.
Donna Shalala Chosen as the Leader of The New School in New York City
Dr. Shalala was the president of the University of Miami from 2001 to 2015. During the Clinton administration, Dr. Shalala served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years. Earlier in her career, she was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Hunter College of the City University of New York.
The New Leader of Hunter College of the City University of New York
Ann Kirschner served as dean of CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College from 2006 to 2016, after which she was appointed as special adviser to the chancellor for strategic partnerships. From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Kirschner was a university professor on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center.
American Heart Association Honors Emory University Scholar Nanette K. Wenger
The Nanette K. Wenger Award for Best Scientific Publication on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Women was recently created by the American heart Association to recognize Dr. Wenger’s monumental work and inspire continued research innovation and discovery.
Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University Wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Martha Jones’ book examines the racism and sexism Black women endured in their pursuit of political participation and power. It also closely examines how Black women used that power to secure equality and representation for others.
In Memoriam: Naomi Ruth Bronheim Levine, 1923-2021
Naomi Levine, a graduate of Hunter College and Columbia Law Schools, raised over $2 billion as the chief fundraiser for New York University in the late 20th century. Earlier in her career, Levine was the executive director of the American Jewish Congress.
In Memoriam: Ruth Kluger, 1931-2020
A native of Vienna, Austria, Kluger was sent to a concentration camp in 1942 and transferred to Auschwitz a year later. She survived the war and immigrated to the United States in 1947. She joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine in 1976, taught at Princeton from 1980 to 1986, and then returned to Irvine, where she taught until her retirement in 1994.
In Memoriam: Florence Rosenfeld Howe, 1929-2020
Dr. Howe began her academic career at Hofstra University and then Queens College in New York, In 1957, she joined the faculty at Goucher College in Baltimore. After establishing the Feminist Press in 1970, she joined the faculty at SUNY-Old Westbury.
In Memoriam: Marguerite Elsa Ballon Nadien, 1930-2020
Dr. Nadien joined the full-time faculty at Fordham in 1974. In 1981, she became the first psychologist in the division of social sciences at the Lincoln Center campus to achieve tenure. She taught at Fordham for more than four decades.
In Memoriam: Gwendolyn Lytle
Gwendolyn Lytle, a member of the music department faculty at Pomona College in Claremont, California, for 35 years. Earlier, she taught at the University of California, Riverside.
In Memoriam: Leila Leah Amsel Bronner, 1930-2019
Lelia Bronner was a noted biblical scholar who taught at universities in South Africa and the United States. She died in Los Angeles earlier this month and was buried in Jerusalem.
In Memoriam: Zina Tillona, 1929-2018
Dr. Tillona first taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1951 as an instructor in Romance languages. After teaching abroad and at Wellesley College and Boston University, Dr. Tillona returned to Amherst in 1966 as professor of Italian and head of the Italian language program.
Vita Rabinowitz to Lead the City University of New York
Prior to being named as executive vice chancellor and provost at CUNY in 2015, Dr. Rabinowitz served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Hunter College, a CUNY campus on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Opal Palmer Adisa Returning to Jamaica to Head the Institute for Gender and Development Studies
After serving on the faculty at the California College of the Arts for nearly a quarter century, Professor Opal Palmer Adisa is returning to her native Jamaica to serve as the director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies.
In Memoriam: Mildred Dresselhaus, 1930-2017
Known as the “Queen of Carbon Science,” Professor Dresselhaus, Institute Professor Emerita of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was dedicated to increasing opportunities for women in science.
Hunter College Scholar Wins the 2016 University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize
Lynda Klich, an assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Hunter College, won the award for her manuscript entitled The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1921-1927). The book will be published by the University of California Press.
Seven Women Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Honors and Awards
They are Jane Lubchenco at Oregon State University, Kristy L. Weber and Megan S. Ryerson of the University of Pennsylvania, Virginia Derryberry of the University of North Carolina, Asheville, Marina Angel of Temple University in Philadelphia, Yue Qi of Michigan State University, and Sangeeta Pratap of Hunter College in New York City.
Hunter College Agrees to Take Steps to Remedy Title IX Violations Regarding Sexual Harassment
The Department of Education investigation was triggered by a student complaint of sexual harassment by a professor. That student also alleged that the college retaliated against her for reporting the harassment. No evidence was found that the college retaliated against the student.
In Memoriam: Joan Acker, 1924-2016
Joan Acker was the first woman professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. When Dr. Acker joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1967, women were less than 3 percent of the total faculty at the university.
U.S. Justice Department Debuts New Website on Campus Sexual Assault
The Center for Changing Our Campus Culture offers a wide variety of information on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus. It provides a wealth of information for law enforcement, victim service providers, students, parents and other key stakeholders to use to improve campus safety.
The New Provost at the City University of New York
Vita Carulli Rabinowitz was named provost and executive chancellor for academic affairs at the City University of New York. Since 2007, Dr. Rabinowitz has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at CUNY’s Hunter College.
Gender Differences in Career Satisfaction for Harvard Business School Graduates
Researchers at Harvard Business School and Hunter College in New York City have published a study on career satisfaction of more than 25,000 men and women graduates of Harvard Business School. The results showed a significant gender gaps on many key indicators.
MIT’s Mildred Dresselhaus to Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor Emerita of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, will be one of 19 individuals to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on November 24.
Donna Shalala Announces She Is Stepping Down as President of the University of Miami
Dr. Shalala was named the fifth president of the University of Miami in 2001. When appointed president, she had just completed eight years of public service as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
CalTech’s Jacqueline Barton to Receive the American Chemical Society’s Highest Honor
Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
In Memoriam: Jacqueline Grennan Wexler (1926-2012)
She was president of Webster College and Hunter College.
New Web Site Ranks Graduate Philosophy Programs on Gender Equality
Site singles out Princeton, Rutgers, and NYU. But critics charge the rankings are flawed because current women graduate students at these universities were not consulted.
Five Women Win Prestigious Honors
Women win awards for scholarship, research, and community service.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
Rosalyn S. Yalow, the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine, has died in New York City at the age of 89. Dr. Yalow earned the Nobel Prize in 1977 for her work in radioimmunoassay, a process that uses radioactive tracers to measures insulin and other substances in blood. Her work was instrumental […]
