Recently added articles from On Campus with Women:
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice.(For Your Bookshelf)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice, Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana, Eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2009, $24.95 paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Inequality and oppression ...
Rethinking Leadership in a Complex, Multicultural, and Global Environment: New Concepts and Models for Higher Education.(For Your Bookshelf)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Rethinking Leadership in a Complex, Multicultural, and Global Environment: New Concepts and Models for Higher Education, Adrianna Kezar, Ed. (Stylus, 2009, $24.95 paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Drawing from a wave of visionary programs as well ...
Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future?(For Your Bookshelf)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future?, Carole Leathwood and Barbara Read (Open University Press, 2009, $53.95 paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As women around the world enter colleges and universities in greater ...
Leading for change: holding institutions accountable.(Campus Women Lead)
Mar 22, 2009; Gallegos-Diaz, Lupe ... Institutions of higher learning around the country are facing challenging times due to constrictions in the national, state, and global economy. This reality seems particularly palpable in California, which even before the downturn ranked in the forties among the fifty states in the ...
Institutional leadership that reflects higher education's diversity: a status report.(Data Connection)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009 ... It is common knowledge among those who follow the demographics of positional leadership in higher education--and even among casual observers--that the upper ranks of faculty and administration fail to reflect the rich diversity of higher education's student bodies. Drawing from research ...
Lessons from the streets of Tehran: inclusive leadership by demand.(Director's Outlook)(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Musil, Caryn McTighe ... As I write this article, thousands of Iranian citizens are marching in the streets for a second week, defying riot police, Basij militia, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because they do not believe that the June 12 national election was fair. While opposition leader Mir Hussein ...
New opportunities for feminist-inspired leadership.(Featured Topics)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Bauer, Denise ... As I opened the Chronicle of Higher Education recently, the title "A New Provost Promotes Diversity and Women in the Sciences" caught my eye. The article announced that feminist scientist and women's studies pioneer Sue V. Rosser had been appointed provost of San Francisco State University ...
From Campus Women Lead to Purdue Women Lead: a new program for inclusive leadership.(Featured Topics)(Purdue University's Campus Women Lead program)
Mar 22, 2009; Sypher, Beverly Davenport ... In the last five years, women and minority men have constituted more than half of new hires at Purdue University. These hiring patterns reflect concerted efforts on the part of university leadership to pursue the inclusive vision laid out in Purdue's past and current strategic plans. The ...
Creating new realities for women of color: the Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute.(From Where I Sit)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Currie, Ding-Jo H. ... In the United States, only 23 percent of colleges and universities have women presidents, and minority women are a scant subset of that population (American Council on Education 2007). On my own journey to the presidency, I seldom saw other women like me. I often wondered, "Where are the ...
The Baldwin Scholars of Duke University: inclusive leadership at work.(From Where I Sit)
Mar 22, 2009; Lisker, Donna ... In the spring of 2009, a woman was elected the next student government president at Duke University. Most wouldn't consider this an earth-shattering feminist breakthrough: women have led college student governments for decades. Although there is a glass ceiling for women in politics, it ...
A still-chilly climate: experiences of women in leadership positions in South African higher education.(Global Perspective)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Maurtin-Cairncross, Anita ... Women continue to be underrepresented in senior and management positions in higher education globally (Bagilhole 2000). Women entered the academic arena relatively recently, and academia's patriarchal history remains evident. Men continue to predominate in senior positions as women ...
New study explores diversity among CAOs.(chief academic officer)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... As a companion to its series on American college presidents, the American Council on Education (ACE) released The CAO Census: A National Profile of Chief Academic Officers in February 2009. The report underscores the need for higher education to invest in recruiting men and women of color ...
Women's representation on boards of trustees increases.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Cornell Survey Research Institute (SRI) and the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) recently surveyed four-year colleges and universities to obtain information about gender representation on their governing boards during the period from 1981 to 2007. The survey ...
Gender parity in academic pay and promotion remains elusive.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Women faculty continue to be compensated and promoted at lower rates than men, according to new data from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). "On the Brink: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2008-09," released in April 2009, details these ...
Work-life balance concerns deter future professoriate.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... New research conducted within the University of California system indicates that future faculty may be veering away from academic careers before even merging onto the "fast track." According to the study's authors, today's doctoral students, particularly women, see research-intensive ...
Women faculty report greater dissatisfaction than men.(Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles' 2007-08 faculty norms survey)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... In March 2009, the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles released the results of its 2007-08 faculty norms survey. In addition to exploring changes in faculty teaching styles and goals related to student learning, the survey uncovered gender-based ...
MLA releases report on women in the profession.(Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession recently released a new report on the professional activities and advancement of women in academe. Titled "Still Standing: The Associate Professor Survey," the April 2009 report identifies a significant ...
Equity in college sports declines.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card on College Sport in February 2009. Examining the demographics of student athletes, coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners, and other ...
Campus Women Lead.(Links)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AAC&U affiliate Campus Women Lead (CWL) promotes "a multicultural women-led agenda for the sustained transformation of higher education" through workshops, publications, and a community listserv. These projects are informed by CWL's belief in "the ...
Spectrum Initiative.(Links)(American Council on Education)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The American Council on Education (ACE) is working to diversify higher education's executive leadership through the Spectrum Initiative: Advancing Diversity in the College Presidency. As outlined on the ACE Web site, the initiative's goals are: "to broaden ...
