Women in Higher Education Administration
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. -- Bella Azbug, US Representative
Today there are ever-increasing numbers of women enrolling in and completing college,
as well as outpacing men in attaining doctoral and professional degrees
according to the Institute of Education Sciences Center for National Education
Statistics website, The
Condition of Education. Slowly, but surely this trend seems to be turning
the tides of male-dominated academia.
Following the progress of these tides is a very informative
website, the WIA Report: Tracking the
Progress of Women in Academia. All news of appointments, departures,
enrollments, awards, etc. concerning women in the field of higher education can be
found there. They also provide a jobs board.
Two women in higher education administration I have been
particularly inspired by are Dr. Sherry Hoppe, the 8th President of Austin Peay
State University, and Dr. Alisa White,
soon to be inaugurated as the 10th President of APSU.
While
female higher education administrators are still in the minority, torch-bearers like Dr. Hoppe and Dr. White, as well as groups like
these below are supporting women as they achieve more:
AAUP’s Women in the
Academic Profession standing committee, http://www.aaup.org/about/committees/standing-committees#womencom
American Association
of University Women (AAUW), http://www.aauw.org/who-we-are/
Check these organizations out and contribute where you can. Your efforts
will help make a difference in the important issues like reducing sexual harassment,
gaining equal pay for equal work, and discouraging discrimination in the
promotion and tenure process.
Until tomorrow,
Melynda
#TCBHigherEd
References:
Center for National Education Statistics. (2015). The
Condition of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/index.asp
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