Stacey Holloway currently serves as an associate professor of sculpture and coordinator of the bachelor of fine arts program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Buckner-Brown brings over two decades of experience in higher education and public health to her new role. She has recently served as Alcorn's interim provost and associate provost for undergraduate education and success.
Dr. Whitney is the president emerita of Clarion University in Pennsylvania and recently served as interim chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Before leading Clarion, Dr. Whitney was vice chancellor for student life at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from 1999 through 2010.
The women appointed to Dean positions are Nicole S. Sampson at Stony Brook University in New York, Kellee Van Aken at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania, Karen E. Bravo at Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis, Sonya Forte DuheÌ at Arizona State University, and SherRhonda Gibbs at the University of Northern Colorado.
The Women's Philanthropy Institute is housed in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Sager has been serving as director of philanthropy at the Indiana University Health Foundation.
The index identified 45,000 U.S. charities that are dedicated to serving primarily women and girls. In 2016, these organizations received a collective total of $6.3 billion in charitable contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations. This was about 1.6 percent of all donations.
The twelve women appointed to dean posts at major universities are: Amy Falkner, Grace Kuo, Amy Hungerford, Lynn Boyd, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Haifa Abou Samra, Pamela F. Cipriano, Susan McIntosh, Kristi Palmer, Jane Aiken, Safiya George, and Allison Brashear.
The new deans are April Barton at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Bethany Nowviskie at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Sherri Jones at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Maria Donoghue Velleca at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The study involved 585 participants, both men and women, who watched videos on the STEM gender gap. Both men and women reported an increase in understanding the gender bias problem. However, women reported "decreased anticipated belonging and trust and increased negative affect and stereotype threat concerns about the STEM organization."
The suit alleges gender discrimination and retaliation against associate professor of geography Altha Cravey after she raised concerns about sexual and racial discrimination at the university.
Andrea Jain is an associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is an expert on South Asian religions as well as the study of yoga.
