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Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointments of a Dozen Women to Administative Positions
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Three Selective Colleges Announce the Appointment of Women to Diversity Positions
Eloísa Gordon-Mora was named chief diversity officer at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Phyllis Esposito was appointed vice president and dean for institutional diversity at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and Sheila Lloyd was named senior vice president for justice, equity, and antiracism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Crystal Williams Will Be the Eighteenth President of the Rhode Island School of Design
President-elect Williams has been serving as a professor of English and vice president and associate provost for community & inclusion at Boston University. She began her academic career at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She later served as associate vice president for strategic initiatives at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
A Trio of Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans
Debbie G. Thomas has been appointed dean of the College of Education at Grambling State University in Louisiana. Lynette Luckers is the new dean of counseling and completion services at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, and Tawana Parks was appointed the Martha A. Darling Dean of Students at Reed College in Portland. Oregon.
The First Woman to Be Honored With the World Agriculture Prize
Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor in the department of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis, has been named a 2020 World Agriculture Prize laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences.
In Memoriam: Laurel L. Wilkening, 1944-2019
In 1993, Dr. Wilkening, a planetary scientist, came to the University of California, Irvine as the school’s third chancellor and the third woman chancellor in University of California System history. In 2013, an asteroid discovered by NASA-funded astronomers at the University of Arizona was officially named to honor Dr. Wilkening.
Audrey Bilger Will Be the First Women President of Reed College in Portland, Oregon
Currently, Dr. Bilger serves as vice president for academic affairs, dean of the college, and professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Earlier in her career, she spent 22 years at Claremont McKenna College.
In Memoriam: Jane Shell Raymond, 1938-2019
Dr. Raymond began her career in academia at her alma mater, Reed College, where she taught both chemistry and mathematics. She later taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology in 1977. She retired in 2009.
In Memoriam: Eleanor Maccoby, 1917-2018
Professor Maccoby was the first woman to chair the psychology department at Stanford. She held that post from 1973 to 1976.
Four Women Scholars Granted Tenure at Reed College in Portland, Oregon
Reed College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Portland, Oregon, has granted tenure to seven faculty members. Four of the faculty members granted tenure are women: Samiya Bashir, Kara Cerveny, Catherine Ming T’Ien Duffly, and Mariela Szwarcberg Daby.
University of California, Santa Barbara Scholar Honored by the American Chemical Society
Alison Butler, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and associate vice chancellor for academic personnel at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been selected to receive the Alfred Bader Award in Bio-Inorganic or Bio-Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
Study Reveals College Campuses That Had the Most Reported Rapes in 2014
Using campus safety and crime statistics collected by the federal government, the Washington Post found more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States had at least 10 reported rapes on their main campuses in 2014.
