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Virginia Middle School Renamed After NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Sidney Lanier Middle School – a Fairfax, Virginia middle school named after a Confederate soldier – has been renamed in honor of African American NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, ABC News reported. Lanier was a poet and Confederate private. Johnson was one of four Black women whose work with NASA helped pave the way for the […]
June 7, 2021
Students
Frontier Nursing University Endows New Scholarship to Increase Diversity in Healthcare
Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has endowed a new scholarship to support African American, Black, Native American, and Alaskan Native students. The scholarship will be for 10 students a year. FNU will designate $2.5 million to give $100,000 in scholarships a year. “While our other endowed scholarships are needed by and available to students of all […]
May 18, 2021
African-American
Why College-Educated Black Women Are Threats in 2021
College-educated Black women are a threat ─ to the white American supremacy and higher education as we know it. Threats are meant to intimidate ─ to threaten is to give signs or warnings, to announce with intent or possibility, to cause to feel insecure or anxious. Threats hang and hover over, invoking fear with purpose. Threats are an indication of something impending. The threat of powerful, college-educated Black women in 2021 is looming. Warning signs ahead!
April 27, 2021
Women
Reflections of a Woman in STEM
It is no secret that women remain underrepresented in STEM fields. Based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics, for the last 15 years, women have consistently earned more than half of the degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions.
March 11, 2021
Women
Biden Orders Review of Trump-Era Title IX Regulations
President Joe R. Biden will sign an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Education to review Trump-era changes to Title IX regulations on Monday, which is International Women’s Day, NBC reported. Under former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, the department shifted how colleges and universities handle sexual harassment and assault cases. Among other changes, […]
March 8, 2021
Women
Dr. Marjorie Hass Appointed First Female President of the Council of Independent Colleges
Dr. Marjorie Hass, president of Rhodes College, will be the first female president of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). She will assume her post in the summer. “CIC’s role is unique in its focus on building capacity at every level and within every sphere of independent colleges and universities,” Hass said. “Areas of particular […]
March 4, 2021
Women
Women Studies Scholars Worry Their Programs Are at Risk for Being Cut Amid Tightening Budgets
Women’s studies scholars worry programs like theirs will take a hit as the pandemic leads to adjunct faculty and staff layoffs, pay cuts, furloughs and slashed programs across higher education. But in the midst of all this, women’s studies scholars across the country are finding ways to celebrate Women’s History Month and emphasize the importance of their research.
March 4, 2021
Women
Meet Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji, a Champion for Inclusive Education
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s research focuses on past and present violence against Muslim women, the history of Ismaili Muslim women, masculinity and Muslim girlhood.
March 3, 2021
Women
Variances in Tenure Process Raise Gender Equity Concerns Exacerbated by COVID-19
Faculty across the country have expressed concerns about the equity considerations they feel are being missed in current conversations about what tenure should look like in the pandemic.
March 1, 2021
Women
Report Examines Gender Pay Disparities Among Top Earners in Higher Ed
A new report from the Women’s Power Gap Initiative at the Eos Foundation and the American Association of University Women found that while 60% of all higher ed professionals are women, 76% of top earners and 82% of number one earners are men. And women of color are “virtually nonexistent” among the top-earning positions in higher education.
February 24, 2021
Women
Student Activists Protest Against Sexual Assault on Campuses
College students across the U.S. staged socially distanced protests this week against sexual assault on campuses, such as Boston University and Minnesota State University, CBS News reported.
February 10, 2021
Sports
Women in Sports Leadership: A Q&A with Chevonne Mansfield, Interim Athletics Director, Florida Memorial University
Q&A with Chevonne Mansfield, Interim Athletics Director, Florida Memorial University
February 10, 2021
Women
Women’s Rights Organizations Push for an Office of Gender Equity at the Education Department
Women’s rights organizations are making a renewed push for an Office of Gender Equity in the U.S. Department of Education under President Joe Biden.
January 29, 2021
Sports
Women in Sports Leadership: A Q&A with Dr. Dana Hollie
A Q&A with Dr. Dana Hollie, the Faculty Athletic Representative at the University of Toledo.
January 20, 2021
Women
Judson College Meets Fundraising Goals, Stays Open
Judson College, the sixth oldest U.S. women’s college will stay open, having met its fundraising goals, Alabama Political Reporter reported. In December, the all-women Alabama school had said that it would close by the year’s end without $500,000 in donations and $1 million in long-term contributions by Dec. 31. “The Judson community surpassed the $500,000 […]
January 4, 2021
Women
183-Year-Old Women’s College To Close If It Doesn’t Raise $500,000 by Dec. 31
Founded in 1838, the all-women’s Judson College has weathered multiple wars, The Great Depression, two fires and several recessions — but 2020 may have been too much.
December 22, 2020
Faculty & Staff
Extend the Tenure Clock to Save Careers of Rising Academic Women
The halls of higher education already had a leaky pipeline for women in science and academia, but the coronavirus pandemic has taken an ax to the problem and busted it wide open.
November 30, 2020
Sports
Meet Jennifer Lynne Williams, Director of Athletics, Alabama State University
Women in Sports Leadership: Q&A with Jennifer Lynne Williams, the director of athletics at Alabama State University.
November 23, 2020
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