Each year, the Mississippi University for Women and the University Press of Mississippi collaborate to award the Welty Prize for an outstanding work of literary scholarship on women's studies, Southern studies, or modern letters in honor of MUW's most famous alumna, writer Eudora Welty.
Rosa Rivera-Hainaj has been selected as provost at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, and Catherine Koshland was named interim executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley. Both appointments are effective in July.
Bethami Dobkin is a professor of communication and provost emerita at Saint Mary's College of California. She served for a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs. She joined the faculty at Saint Mary's College of California in 2008 after teaching for 18 years at the University of San Diego.
Kathy Brittain Richardson currently serves as provost and professor of communication at Berry College in Georgia. When she becomes president of Westminster College in July, she will be the first woman to the lead the liberal arts college in its 164-year history.
