In an examination of the exhibition history of more than 65,000 contemporary visual artists, a new study found men are more likely than women to have their work featured in a museum or gallery and men's art is more likely to be sold at an auction than art created by women.
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 contact@WIAReport.com
The new deans are Angela Pool-Funai at the University of Wyoming, Catherine Bradshaw at Johns Hopkins University, Katherine Eggert at the University of Colorado Boulder, Marcia Weiss at Thomas Jefferson University, Yael Grushka-Cockayne at the University of Virginia, Azadeh Keivani at Lehman College, and Julie Amador at the University of Idaho.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
Dr. Fallon comes to her new role from St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York, where she has served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since 2018. Previously, she was provost at Marylhurst University in Oregon.
Dr. Smith was named the first Black president of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 2015. Before her presidency, she was dean of the college and the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.
For the second year in a row, Danielle Keats Citron of the University of Virginia School of Law, is the country's top-cited legal scholar. Six other women are included among the top 10 most-cited law professors — more than double the number of the past two years.
Currently provost at The Citadel in South Carolina, Dr. Selden previously worked for the University of Lynchburg for 18 years, ultimately serving as provost. She is slated to return to the university as president on July 1.
Dr. Heilman taught brand management, marketing, and consulting courses at the University of Virginia for more than two decades. In addition to her academic work, she served as the university's faculty athletics representative for several years.
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is a national organization that supports Jesuit higher education institutions in the United States, Belize, and Canada. Dr. Murray, who currently serves as senior vice president for student development and mission at the College of the Holy Cross, is slated to become the association's next president on June 2.
A longtime law school faculty member, Magill served as the ninth president of the University of Pennsylvania from the summer of 2022 until her resignation in December 2023. She is slated to become the next dean of the Georgetown University Law Center on August 1.
