Dr. Elrod was an administrator at Washington and Lee University for 22 years, including several years as first lady after her husband, John Elrod, became W&L's twenty-second president. She was also a local politician, serving as the first woman mayor of Lexington, Virginia from 2008 to 2016.
Dr. Hancock has taught as an assistant teaching professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri for the past seven years. Her research focuses on mental health and well-being within the veterinary medical profession.
The new endowed chairs are Elizabeth Brickley at the Colorado School of Public Health, Amy Kaleita at Iowa State University, and Roni Reiter-Palmon at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
According to a new report from Westat, nearly 19 percent of women and 21 percent of genderqueer students experienced some form of nonconsensual sexual misconduct in 2024. This is a decrease from 2019.
Anne Clifford was the first woman appointed to the Msgr. James A. Supple Chair in Catholic Studies at Iowa State University. Her academic interests including feminist theology, creation theology, and natural sciences.
Gould succeeds former Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff, whose leadership was unable to prevent ten schools from leaving the conference over the past two years. Gould's appointment makes her not only the first woman commissioner of the Pac-12 conference, but the first woman commissioner of any Autonomy Five athletic conference.
Her promotion to follows the recent separation of former Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff, whose leadership was unable to prevent ten schools from leaving the conference over the past two years. Gould's appointment makes her not only the first woman commissioner of the Pac-12 conference, but the first woman commissioner of any Autonomy Five athletic conference.
Rizia Bardhan is the inaugural Jean H. Steffenson Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. Beverly Brozanski of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been named the inaugural Susan and James C. Gould Professor of Pediatric Quality and Safety and Jennifer Joe has been named the John E. Peterson Jr. Professor in Accounting in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Zengyi Shao at Iowa State University, Bonnielin Swenor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Karen Cook-Bell at Bowie State University in Maryland, and Wendy Berry Mendes at Yale University.
Since 2017, Dr. Howsare Boyens has been serving as provost at Des Moines Area Community College, Urban Campus in Des Moines. She began her tenure at Des Moines Area Community College in 2003 as a counselor.
Currently the president of Iowa Valley Community College in Marshalltown, Dr. Fisher has served in that role since 2019. She returns to Kirkwood after having served two previous stints at the college. She will begin her ne duties this coming fall.
Taking on new positions or duties are Rossana Hu at the University of Pennsylvania, Mary Wiedenhoeft at Iowa State University, Lois Agnew, at Syracuse University in New York, and Joan Blakey at the University of Minnesota.
