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Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

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. Shannon began her career at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine as the main research lab technologist. In 1990, she left the lab to become director of the minority affairs office at the school, becoming the school’s first associate dean for minority affairs in 1998, a post she held until she retired in 2008.

The new diversity officers are Tina Simpson at the School of Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Alisa Macksey at La Salle University in Philadelphia, J. Camille Hall at the University of Missouri Kansas City, and Greneda Johnson at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City and Cottey College, a women's college in Nevada, Missouri, have partnered together to offer Cottey students an easy transfer into the university's School of Computing and Engineering. 

Maryfrances Wagner, a retired English professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the new poet laureate of the state of Missouri and Ashley M. Jones who teaches at Converse College in South Carolina and the Alabama School of Fine Arts was named poet laureate of the state of Alabama.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City announced it is combining its Black studies, Latin American studies, and women's studies programs into a new academic department. The new Race, Ethnic, and Gender/Sexuality department.

Dr. Williamson joins the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she served as the Victor and Caroline Schutte/Missouri Professor of Urban Affairs and director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs. Earlier, she taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Alabama.

The new initiative is led by Hyunjin Seo, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Kansas and Baek-Young Choi, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Dr. Bichelmeyer is currently a professor of management and the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she also served as interim chancellor. Prior to that, she held numerous leadership roles at Indiana University-Bloomington.