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].
A distinguished profesor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Suding is a plant community ecologist who studies ecosystem landscape and population biology.
The new deans are Amanda Haertling Thein at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sarah Soule at Stanford University, Nancy La Vigne at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Jessica Slaten at Gadsden State Community College in Alabama.
Nearly 400 women faculty members at the University of Colorado Boulder will receive a combined $4.5 million in attorney fees and backpay due to a recently settled gender equity lawsuit. Some of these women will receive as much as $50,000 in missed wages.
The new deans are Carolyn Smith at Baylor College of Medicine, Erika Randall at the University of Colorado Boulder, Renée Cheng at Arizona State University, and Sally Mudiamu at Montana State University.
Dr. Schmiesing brings three decades of administrative and academic experience at the University of Colorado Boulder to her new position. Most recently, she has been serving as the vice chancellor for academic resources management.
Within the first 20 years of a faculty member’s career post-Ph.D., overall attrition rates range from approximately 2 percent to 5 percent. At all stages that number is higher for women. Researchers also found women leave or consider leaving because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.
The six women scholars who are taking on new duties are Preeti Sivasankar at Purdue University in Indiana, Stefanie Johnson at the University of Colorado Boulder, Lynda Gardner at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Lorann Stallones of Colorado State University, Kim Dooley at Texas A&M University, and Laurie Cutting a Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Susan Goldberg was named vice dean a professor of practice at Arizona State University and Kristie Soares has accepted the position of co-director of LGBTQ Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Also, Jill Wieber Lens is the new associate dean for research and faculty development at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Seretha Williams was appointed chair of the department of English and world languages at Augusta University in Georgia.
The three women appointed to university diversity positions are Sonia DeLuca FernaÌndez at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sibby Anderson-Thompkins at Sewanee: The University of the South, and Kauline Cipriani at Colorado State University.
In 2005, Judith Roy was elected president of the National Women's Studies Association. She was the first, and still only, two-year college faculty member elected to the position.
