Women in Higher Education Newsletter

01/04/2023

Showing Up Authentically in Academe

In the newest issue of WIHE, Kei-Sygh Thomas talks with Isis Artze-Vega, Ed.D. in our cover story: Showing Up Authentically in Academe

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01/03/2023

Women in Higher Education

Our newest issue is now live on Wiley Online Library! Check out all these great articles:

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12/30/2022

From the WIHE archives: Instead of resolving to make our individual lives better, this year, we should resolve to make life better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us. https://www.wihe.com/article-details/15/resolve-to-make-life-better-for-all-of-us/?kw=Resolutions

12/30/2022

Feminist Resolutions for the New Year | WIHE

This article originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of WIHE, but it's about New Year's resolutions, particularly feminist ones, which seem as apt for 2022 as they did for 2016. Enjoy! http://ow.ly/Uo8a50Mfw5Q https://www.wihe.com/article-details/94/feminist-resolutions-for-the-new-year/?kw=Resolutions

New Year's resolutions exist to tell us there's something wrong with who we are now.

12/30/2022

Sharing Native American Art and Culture

NEW in WIHE, Lois Elfman profiles Dr. Jami Powell, first associate curator of Native American art and now curator of Indigenous art at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art:

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12/29/2022

It's Not My Job to Fix Your Diversity Issues

"In Her Own Words" is our monthly column featuring guest contributors' perspectives on higher education. In our newest issue, Melissa Castillo Planas makes it clear: It's Not My Job to Fix Your Diversity Issues

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12/28/2022

NEWSWATCH: Gendered Politics at Work and Play

Want more Newswatch from WIHE? Don't miss our monthly round-up of gendered politics at work and play, curated by our editor Autumn A. Arnett: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/whe.21214

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12/28/2022

Women in Higher Education

Our December issue is now live on Wiley Online Library! Check out all these great articles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23315466/2022/31/12

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12/27/2022

The Use of Digital Media to Promote Social Justice

NEW from WIHE: Lois Elfman profiles Dr. Moya Bailey, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University IL, who studies how race, gender and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.

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12/22/2022

Sharing Native American Art and Culture

NEW in WIHE, Lois Elfman profiles Dr. Jami Powell, first associate curator of Native American art and now curator of Indigenous art at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art:

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12/22/2022

Women in Higher Education

Our December issue is now live on Wiley Online Library! Check out all these great articles: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23315466/2022/31/12

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12/21/2022

"Many women, and especially women of color, battle simultaneous feelings of too-muchness and not-enoughness in professional environments."

2022: In her August column Habari Gani, editor Autumn A. Arnett asks Who Gets to Be the Expert? http://ow.ly/MiWI50IBfR3

12/19/2022

Women Also Know History, So Ask Them About It | WIHE

2018 - Women Also Know History, So Ask Them About It

Data from the American Historical Society show that women now earn one‐half of the degrees awarded in history. But the discipline still has an…

12/16/2022

Habari Gani: Power Tripping | WIHE

"Elon Musk’s declared intent to buy Twitter had the internet all in a tizzy about freedom of speech: who gets it, who shouldn’t get it, how should it be regulated, and at what cost should it be protected?" 2022: Autumn A. Arnett on Power Tripping

Three weeks ago, I was all ready to write about the First Amendment. Elon Musk’s declared intent to buy Twitter had the internet all in a tizzy about…

12/15/2022

: Lois Elfman talks with Dr. Vanessa Carlisle about her life and work as educator, author, and coach, and how her newest novel, Take Me with You, reflects complex dynamics about sexuality. http://ow.ly/fOpe50IgctG

12/15/2022

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12/13/2022

Home Training and Code-Switching Online | WIHE

in 2022. From our August issue: read our cover story from Imani J. Jackson on Home Training and Code-Switching Online:

One of my earliest cultural lessons was in due deference. Some people call it “home-training.” Some people call it comportment. Some people call it …

12/12/2022

New Insights into Women's History | WIHE

Looking back on the in 2022! In January, Lois Elfman wrote about Dr. Cathleen D. Cahill and her book, Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement (2020).

As the centennial of the 19th amendment—which brought women the right to vote—approached, scholars and advocates became outspoken about conspicuous…

12/08/2022

In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society

Moveable Type is WIHE's bookshelf of the best new titles to know. This month, editor Autumn A. Arnett reviews "In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society"

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12/07/2022

Be a Woman on the Move! New positions are now available - including over 240 in educators and leadership.

Search by sector, location, job type or salary band. https://www.wihe.com/jobs/educators-and-leadership/

12/07/2022

UIC professor selected for Freedom Scholar social change award | UIC Today

Congratulations to University of Illinois Chicago professor Beth Richie!

University of Illinois Chicago professor Beth Richie is among a select group of 10 progressive academics to be named to the latest cohort of the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Freedom Scholars, a group of scholars leading research and engaged in organizing that advances a racial and economic justic...

12/06/2022

"Sacred Writes is not a feminist project because women created and run it or because we have a majority female leadership team. Women collaborating does not a feminist project make"

Dr. Liz Bucar and Dr. Megan Goodwin share their vision with WIHE. https://www.wihe.com/article-details/200/public-scholarship-as-a-feminist-project/

12/05/2022

"It's another week. Another Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. It doesn't matter what day it is."

All Over Again with Kelly J. Baker

Join us next week for a celebration of the writings of our most excellent editor!

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12/02/2022

"I turned my lens to question how memoirs reveal solutions to the problem of the mental duress caused by marginalization, exclusion and oppression in higher education and other areas."

Dr. Stephanie Evans is Centering Black Women in Intellectual History http://ow.ly/LE1Z50DswMg

12/02/2022

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12/01/2022

NEWSWATCH: Gendered Politics at Work and Play

Want more Newswatch from WIHE? Don't miss our monthly round-up of gendered politics at work and play, curated by our editor Autumn A. Arnett:

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12/01/2022

Designing for the New Normal | WIHE

"We have built our entire educational system, but in particular our course design, on the (ableist) assumption of near-100% attendance from near-100% of the students."

Last year, Lee Skallerup Bessette told us it's time to change all that.

Our campus is entirely in person this fall. We required everyone on campus (faculty, students and staff) to be fully vaccinated. We have a mask…

11/30/2022

This is How We Do It Now: the First Anniversary.

Last November, five faculty members of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology shared insights on the post-pandemic changes that have been made in their work and life. It's worth reading again to see where we're at now. https://www.wihe.com/article-details/204/this-is-how-we-do-it-now/

11/29/2022

In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society

Moveable Type is WIHE's bookshelf of the best new titles to know. This month, editor Autumn A. Arnett reviews "In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society"

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11/28/2022

Preparing Tomorrow's Educators to Remedy Learning Loss and Teacher Shortages

This month in WIHE: Dr. Carolyn Theard-Griggs, Dean of the National College of Education (NCE) at National Louis University (NLU, IL), talks with Tina Clark on preparing tomorrow's educators to remedy learning loss and teacher shortages:

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11/24/2022

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts! Here is Julia in 1971, filming episode 246, which was devoted to that Thanksgiving favorite, turkey. We hope you enjoy a delicious meal with family and friends and have a lot to be grateful for this holiday season. (Photo: Schlesinger Library, used with permission)

11/23/2022

I am thankful for all the WIHE contributors, our subscribers and supporters, WIHE editorial team members past and present, the dear family member who says, "Hey honey, this looks like a good article for WIHE's social," our publisher Wiley and YOU! Have a wonderful weekend!

11/22/2022

Teixeira‐Poit Receives NIH Grant to Study the Impact of NICU Design

Don't miss this month's focus on the work Dr. Stephanie Teixeira-Poit, associate professor at the John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences at NCA&T, is doing on the impact of NICU design. Lois Elfman reports:

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11/22/2022

Congratulations!

SRCD is pleased to announce Dr. Cynthia García Coll as Interim Editor of Child Development. Read more: https://bit.ly/3EJ9z0Q

11/19/2022

Closing the week with a personal favorite. This coming holiday season, as we gather together or celebrate online in community and gratitude, remember the words of Katie Rose Guest Pryal: "No matter what, let's agree to care for ourselves, so we are able to care for those around us and our world." http://ow.ly/LgHC50GTI2a

11/18/2022

In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society

Moveable Type is WIHE's bookshelf of the best new titles to know. This month, editor Autumn A. Arnett reviews "In Viral Justice, Dr. Ruha Benjamin Explores the Plagues Facing American Society"

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11/18/2022

Academic Twitter is worth fighting for (opinion)

I'm inclined to agree:

Academic Twitter is worth fighting for (opinion)

There’s a lot to lose if academics leave their favorite “hellsite” in droves, Dominik Stecuła writes.

11/18/2022

Smith College Campus Center to be Named in Honor of Julia McWilliams Child ’34

Yeah, we here on Facebook sharing stuff because Twitter is...unwell.

Also: Julia Child FTW!

The 60,000-square-foot Campus Center includes flexible meeting spaces, the Campus Center Cafe, and areas for studying and socializing—all activities that reflect Child's spirit of hospitality, purpose and bonhomie.

11/17/2022

Surviving British Academia in the time of COVID‐19: A critical autoethnography of a woman of color

From a Special Issue of Wiley's New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development that's focusing on the voices of women academics working from home: Surviving British Academia in the time of COVID‐19: A critical autoethnography of a woman of color

This critical autoethnography is an account of my experiences as a woman of color (WoC) academic at a predominantly White institution in the times of COVID-19 and the consequential turn to online tea...

11/17/2022

Be a Woman on the Move! New positions are now available - including over 250 in faculty.

Search by sector, location, job type or salary band. https://www.wihe.com/jobs/faculty/