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Community Colleges

Op-ed Urging Jill Biden to Drop ‘Dr.’ Honorific Sparks Heated Critiques of Sexism and Elitism

A Friday Wall Street Journal op-ed asking soon-to-be First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to drop the honorific denoting her Ed.D. has inspired heated criticism from many academics who are calling it sexist, classist and elitist.

December 14, 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

Norfolk State Hires First Female Director of Football Operations

The historically Black Norfolk State University has made history by appointing its first female director of football operations: Katina Roberts, WAVY-TV reported. According to WAVY-TV, Roberts, 44, previously worked in the NSU athletics business office and took a chance and applied for the management job. She never played football before — but to Head Football […]

October 21, 2020

Women

Colleges and Universities Celebrate Women’s Vote Centennial

Even as colleges and universities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the return to a new school year, many are finding ways to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave White women the right to vote.

August 18, 2020

African-American

Another University Professor in the Spotlight for ‘Vile’ Comments on Minorities

Two petitions to fire University of North Carolina Wilmington professor Mike Adams for his inflammatory comments over the years about women and minorities have collected a total of 73,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon. One of the petitions says Adams’ Twitter account “contains threats towards minorities.”  The other urges signatories to not financially support or […]

June 8, 2020

Opinion

COVID-19 Reveals Viral Discrimination, Higher Ed Should Pay Attention

People are still saying “the virus doesn’t discriminate,” in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.  We are not equally “all in this together.”  The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest—our elderly, those with underlying health conditions, unhoused people, Natives, Black and Brown communities, and especially those living at any of these intersections.

May 26, 2020

African-American

You Matter: Essential Home Daycare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As a former early childhood teacher and current associate professor of early childhood education, I am concerned, to put it mildly, about essential education professionals being overlooked or discounted in discussions and policies for P-12 teachers and brick and mortar schools.  There are thousands of families depending on home daycare providers to teach and care for their children. I suspect the need has increased since this health pandemic, and those in dire need are families who live in poverty and the working poor, a disproportionate percentage of whom are Black and Latinx.

May 7, 2020

COVID-19

With the Fire on High: The Writing Process in COVID-19

For me to be productive as a woman of color in academia, my writing needs to be driven by a connection to what is real, lived, and urgent. COVID-19 is not normal, and I argue should not be considered the “new” norm.  Academia was already difficult and combined with COVID-19 will have lasting effects on the “productivity” of women of color for years to come.

May 2, 2020

Leadership & Policy

Dr. Virginia Roach Trailblazes Ways for Women in Academia

Dr. Virginia Roach, dean of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education, started her career with a job as a dishwasher in an on-campus daycare center. There, as an aspiring chemical engineer, she was asked to tutor a child with learning difficulties and came to the realization that “this is for me.”

April 22, 2020

Women

New Research Studies Challenges Facing Women Working in STEM

Women remain concerned with underrepresentation and gender bias within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related fields, according to new research.

March 10, 2020

Women

Gender Inequity Persists in Research Authorship, Report Finds

Despite an increase in the number of women in research, gender disparity still remains, according to Elsevier’s new research. The report, “The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens,” analyzed research participation and career progression across the European Union and 15 countries including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Australia and Japan.

March 5, 2020

Faculty & Staff

Authorship: The Elephant in the Room

When it comes to tenure-track faculty positions, and pursuing tenure altogether, there’s no doubt that one item stands above all others: Research. Even in the field of higher education, a field that is supposed to critically reflect on the issues of the academy, including the shortcomings of tenure processes, our programs still emphasize the same flawed indicators: Research -> Publications -> Authorship.

March 4, 2020