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Gender Differences in the Financing of Doctoral Education

About one out of every five women who earned a doctorate in 2025 paid for their degrees primarily from their own funds or savings. For men who earned doctorates that year, 11.1 percent used their own funds or savings as the primary source for paying for their education.

Tonjanita Johnson Appointed President of the Universities of Wisconsin

Since 2019, Dr. Johnson has been senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Alabama System. She will begin her new role in January, overseeing Wisconsin's 13 public universities

New Data on the Educational Attaintment of Women in the United States

In 2025, there were 49,166,000 women over the age of 25 in the United States who had earned at least a bachelor’s degree. There are still more men than women holding professional degrees and doctorates.

Donnette Leilani Kapono to Lead Hawaiʻi Community College

Kapono's appointment marks a return to Hawaiʻi Community College, where she previously worked in the Office of Continuing Education and Training from 1998 to 2006. She most recently served as interim vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

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