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Women Still Behind in Leadership Roles in Massachusetts Higher Ed Institutions

Women make up just 34% of all sitting presidents at Massachusetts’s 88 postsecondary institutions, climbing just one percentage point in four years.

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Liberty University Sexual Assault Case Lawsuit Reaches Settlement

A federal lawsuit alleging Liberty University of fostering an unsafe environment and mishandling sexual assault and harassment cases has reached a settlement.

Liberty University

Leadership & Policy

AAUW's CEO Gloria Blackwell: "There Needs to Be A Reckoning."

Blackwell is the CEO of AAUW, a nonprofit advancing gender equity through advocacy, education, and research.

Gloria Blackwell, CEO of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Wyoming Senate Votes To Stop Funding University of Wyoming's Gender Studies Program

On Friday, senators in Wyoming passed a budget amendment to end funding the University of Wyoming's gender and women's studies program. The amendment will now move to the House for consideration.

Wyoming Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz

Celebrating Leading Women in Higher Education

Diverse presents 25 innovative and dynamic women leaders who are paving the way for others in higher ed.

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Leadership & Policy

The Broken Ladder - Where Are the Women Presidents at R1 Institutions?

Despite earning the majority of terminal degrees, women lead only 22 percent of the nation’s elite institutions.

Andrea Silbert, one of the lead authors of the study and president of the Eos Foundation.

Dr. Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman Featured on U.S. Quarter

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What Woman Want: Leadership at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) gathered a panel of women in leadership at HBCUs to share their stories of success, their advice for future women leaders, and ways to create a pipeline for women to become leaders.

Dr. Roslyn Artis

Stepping Up to Support Women in Transition

As more women are displaced from the workforce amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, experts say transition programs could play a vital role in their return.

Dr. Cara DiMarco

Texas Could Lose Out On Skilled Workers Due To Restrictive Abortion Law, Poll Finds

Yale University Organizations Create Grant and Program Opportunities to Support Women Health Research

To bridge the research gap, Yale University affiliated organizations—Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) and the Office of Cooperative Research (OCR)—recently implemented programs and grant opportunities to support women faculty and research on women’s health. Since its establishment in 1998, WHRY has provided pilot funds to researchers looking to study sex and gender differences in […]

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‘Influential Yet Unsung’ Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson Has Died at 99

Gloria Richardson, “an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer,” has died at age 99 in New York City, reports The Associated Press. By organizing the the Cambridge Movement on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1962, Richardson became the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside of the Deep South. The movement […]

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