Also among the top five colleges for women according to Newsweek are Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Herzing University-Madison in Wisconsin, and Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wellesley College in Massachusetts is the top women's college in the United States and tied for seventh among the country's best liberal arts colleges, according to U.S. News and World Report. Barnard College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Bryn Mawr College, Scripps College, and Spelman College were the next highest ranked women's colleges and were all included within the country's overall top 50 liberal arts institutions.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
Patricia Washington McGraw taught at three institutions throughout the state of Arkansas, including the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she was hired as the first-ever Black faculty member in 1971.
A senior instructor of mathematics at Spelman College in Atlanta, Wilson was found deceased on February 9 at Lake Oconee after an empty boat was found circling the lake.
The new department chairs are Natalie Sowell at Spelman College in Atlanta, Jennifer Sacheck at Brown University in Rhode Island, Christine Chung at the University of California, San Diego, and Isabella Grumbach at the University of Oklahoma.
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 [email protected].
Dr. Maparyan, a distinguished academic and prolific scholar, had been serving as the executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and a professor of African Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
The women appointed to endowed profeessorships are Shola Lynch at Spelman College in Atlanta, Karla Neugebauer at Yale University, Vikki Katz at Chapman University in Orange, California, and Judith Anne Garretson Folse at the University of Arkansas.
Spelman College President Helene Gayle has officially resigned after taking a personal leave of absence in October. Interim President Roz Brewer will continue to serve in her role while the women's college searches for its next leader.
