Dr. Hendricks-Ferguson's current research focuses on making significant contributions to the pioneering study of palliative and end-of-life communication practices by pediatric oncology providers with parents of children with cancer.
The women scholars in new roles are Jennifer Hookstra at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Karyn Brown at Mississippi State University, Jamila Michener at Cornell University, Jaime Sand at Boise State University in Idaho, Felicis Jefferson at the University of Nevada Reno, and Brynja Kohler at Utah State University.
Dr. Ruth joined the philosophy faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1971. Two years later, she founded the university's women's studies program and served as its director until 1985.
Judy Liesveld was appointed dean of the School of Nursing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Ellen M. Bassett has been selected as the John Portman Dean’s Chair in the College of Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Jessica Lang was appointed dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Taking on new diversity assignments are Jin Feng at Grinnell College in Iowa, Jessica Harris at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Rosta Farzan at the University of Pittsburgh, Precious Porras at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and Marilyn Clark at the University of Kentucky.
Newly appointed to dean posts are Shari Veil at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lynette I. Wood at Shaw University in Raleigh, Maura Daly Iversen at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, Browne C. Lewis at North Carolina Central University, Kara Shustrin at Southern Illinois Univerisity Edwardsville and Elizabeth Wentz at Arizona State University.
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 new deans are Lesley Lokko at City College of New York, Angela Kashuba at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Susan Beth Estes at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Mariette DiChristina at Boston University, Robin L. Hughes at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Melissa Sturge-Apple at the University of Rochester, and Sue Day Perroots at West Virginia University.
Here is a listing of women who are faculty or administrators in higher education who have been honored by colleges and universities or who have received notable awards from other organizations.
The honorees are Tiana Clark, a poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin who will teach at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville this fall, Emily A. Carter of Princeton University, R.S. Zaharna of American University in Washington, D.C., and Ellen Driscoll of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Sally J. Page served as an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity officer at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and the University of North Dakota for more than 40 years.
