Tag: Sarah Lawrence College

Three Women With Current Ties to Higher Education Win Pulitzer Prizes

Edda Fields-Black of Carnegie Mellon University and Kathleen DuVal of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received 2025 Pulitzer Prizes in History,. Marie Howe of Sarah Lawrence College has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

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."

In Memoriam: Louise Elizabeth Glück, 1943-2023

Louise Glück was the Frederick Iseman Professor in the Practice of Poetry in the department of English at Yale University. She earned the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020

In Memoriam: Karin Woodruff Jackson, 1940-2023

In 1974, Jackson began teaching courses in women’s studies at the University of Southern Maine. She went on to teach for 10 years at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine, and later for 20 years at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Study Finds Women Faculty Are More Likely Than Men to Support Limits on Free Speech on Campus

A new analysis of data from a survey on free speech conducted by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found that 51 percent of women faculty reported that they could envision shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus as being acceptable, compared to just 39 percent of male faculty.

Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

The women recently hired to diversity positions are Elaina Sutley in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas, Tashiana Bryant-Myrick at the California Institute of Technology, and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

Rutgers-Newark’s Chancellor Nancy Cantor Honored for Her Significant Contributions to American Higher Education

Nancy Cantor received the 10th Annual Ernest L. Boyer Award in a ceremony at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Dr. Cantor was cited for being “globally recognized as an advocate for higher education, a catalyst for social mobility, and leader for universities serving as a public good in their communities.”

Baylor University Poet Awarded New Zealand’s Most Prestigious Writing Fellowship

Chloe Honum, an assistant professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has received the 2019 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Dr. Honum will have the opportunity to research and write full time through a residence, stipend and tenure at the Sargeson Centre in Auckland.

Rachelle Cruz Wins a 2018 American Book Award for Her Debut Poetry Collection

Rachelle Cruz, a lecturer in the department of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has won a 2018 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her debut poetry collection, God's Will for Monsters.

Karen Lawrence Appointed President of the Huntington Library in California

Karen Lawrence, who served as president of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, for 10 years, has been named president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. She is the former dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Four Women With Academic Affiliations Nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Four of five finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction this year are women with current affiliations at American universities: Samantha Hunt of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Achy Obejas of Mills College in Oakland, Joan Silber of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and Jesmyn Ward of Tulane University in New Orleans.

A Pair of Women Academics Honored by the Academy of American Poets

Marilyn Chin is a professor emerita at San Diego State University in California and Marie Howe teaches poetry at New York University and Sarah Lawrence College. Both scholars have been named chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.