Download or read book The Educational Odyssey of a Woman College President written by Joanne V. Creighton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in her tenure as president of Mount Holyoke College, Joanne V. Creighton faced crises as students staged protests and occupied academic buildings; the alumnae association threatened a revolt; and a distinguished professor became the subject of a major scandal. Yet Creighton weathered each storm, serving for nearly fifteen years in office and shepherding the college through a notable revitalization. In her autobiography, The Educational Odyssey of a Woman College President, Creighton situates her tenure at Mount Holyoke within a life and career that have traversed breathtaking changes in higher education and social life. Having held multiple roles in academia spanning undergraduate, professor, and president, Creighton served at small colleges and large public universities and experienced the dramatic changes facing women across the academy. From her girlhood in Wisconsin to the presidency of a storied women's college, she bears witness to the forces that have reshaped higher education for women and continues to advocate for the liberal arts and sciences.
Download or read book Women at the Top written by Mimi Wolverton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about the women who fill this particular role. This book—the first in a series that explores women leaders in different contexts—remedies this gap by presenting the reflections of nine women community college, college, and university presidents on what they see as key tenets of leadership, illuminated by pivotal events in their careers.These presidents know the power of words, and in telling their stories through these interviews with the authors, they let us know who they are, what their visions are, and what they value.While they express some differences in their emphases on particular leadership characteristics, they show remarkable unanimity in their beliefs as to which are the most important—competence, credibility, and communication. The participants discuss the growing opportunities for women in higher education administration, without minimizing the barriers that still exist, nor the potential for backlash against powerful and assertive women. They stress the need for women to be very careful about making the correct choices for themselves; to balance personal life and work; and to appropriately prepare for leadership. This book both breaks new ground, and offers guidance for women who aspire to positions of leadership—in any field of endeavor. The Presidents: Gretchen M. Bataille, University of North Texas, Denton, TexasBarbara Douglass, Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted, CT Mildred García, California State University, Dominguez HillsCarol C. Harter, University of Nevada, Las VegasMamie Howard-Golladay, Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake, NYMartha T. Nesbitt, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GeorgiaPamela Sue Shockley-Zalabak, University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsBetty L. Siegel, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GAKaren Gayton Swisher, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS Each confronts her world with grace, her work with passion, and her life with enthusiasm. The Series: Pathways to Leadership is a series about successful women who have reached the pinnacle of their careers. It features stories about extraordinary women who have found paths to success—whether it’s leading a college or university or becoming successful scholars in science and engineering or thriving in some other male-dominated arena.
Download or read book Honoring the Call written by Neari Francois Warner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work evolved from the personal and professional experiences of Grambling State University's first female president, albeit acting. The story occurs during troubled times, recounting the activities of the team she assembled to combat the foreboding issue of the university losing its regional accreditation. Ultimately, the book is designed to document the hard work, dedicated service, and committed spirit that the Grambling State University constituencies demonstrated to ensure that the University remained an outstanding academic institution, attracting students from throughout the United States and many foreign countries and that it continued to be the place "where everybody is somebody".
Download or read book In the Company of Educated Women written by Barbara Miller Solomon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the struggle of women to achieve equality in American colleges from Colonial times to the present
Download or read book A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education written by Marjorie Hass and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book aims to give women the frank, supportive advice they need to advance in their careers and to lead with excellence. Based on the author's fifteen years of senior leadership experience at three different colleges and her mentorship work with dozens of women, this book guides women through launching, building, and advancing an academic career"--
Download or read book A Male President for Mount Holyoke College written by Ann Karus Meeropol and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in 1933, a group of male trustees determined to change the college. This book tells the story of how this group dominated the search process and ultimately convinced the majority of the trustees to offer the presidency to Roswell Gray Ham, an associate professor of English at Yale University.
Download or read book Women at the Top written by Mimi Wolverton and published by Stylus Pub Llc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational because most women who read it will see themselves trying to balance their competing family priorities with career paths and can say, 'I can do this too.' The future looks bright indeed for women who aspire to leadership roles in higher education, and this deeply personal and reflective book will serve as a guidebook and resource for other women who seek leadership roles in the nation's colleges and universities."?Teachers College Record "Educational leadership students and instructors of higher education should look to Women at the Top as a wonderful complement to their leadership and organizational behavior class texts."?The Journal of Higher Education
Download or read book Women Administrators in Higher Education written by Jana Nidiffer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the tenacious spirit and hard work of women administrators in their struggles to enhance opportunities for women on college campuses.
Download or read book On Becoming a Woman Leader written by Susan R. Madsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of research, this book provides an analysis of the data gathered from extensive interviews with university presidents. Each of these women offers candid information about their lifelong journey to becoming a leader. They reveal their childhood and adolescent experiences including facts about their personality, schooling, activities, leadership positions, employment, influential individuals, significant events, opportunities, awards, recognitions, college plans, and goals. The discussion about the leaders’ college years provides insight into what influenced their leadership development, decisions, and perspectives.
Download or read book The Rise of Women in Higher Education written by Gary A. Berg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college student population in America is female, and still growing. By the year 2000, women surpassed men worldwide in attendance at higher education institutions. At the same time, after years of a disproportionate dominant male professoriate, female faculty members are now becoming the majority of university professors. While top university presidents are still largely male, women have achieved real gains in the overall administrative ranks and trustee positions. In all areas of the university disparities still exist in terms of compensation and balance in key areas of the academy, but the overall positive trend is clear. Few to this date have recognized and chronicled this extraordinary change in college education—one of society’s fundamental and influential institutions. For universities the test for the future is to make the changes needed in broad areas within higher education from financial aid to curriculum, student activities, and overall campus culture in order to better foster a newly empowered majority of women students.
Download or read book Unexpected Influence written by Anne-Marie McCartan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the 20th century, men and women of uncommon vision and commitment drove the phenomenal growth of that uniquely American institution of higher education, the community college. Students of this movement are well aware of the contributions of the men who served as college presidents, researchers, and national leaders – but what women made significant contributions that have not before been brought to light? Mildred Montag envisioned and implemented community-college based programs to train nurses. Dorothy Knoell used her prodigious research skills to show that community colleges prepare students well to succeed after transfer. Mildred Bulpitt and Carolyn Desjardins helped create and run leadership workshops that resulted in hundreds of women moving up the administrative pipeline. And a dynamic group of women were behind the successful replication of community-based colleges through the establishment of the American Indian tribal colleges. These stories and a dozen more are captured in this book. Those who are familiar with community colleges will welcome having these stories documented at last, and those new to the field will be inspired by how these women came to exert such “unexpected influence” on these remarkable educational institutions.
Download or read book Dr Annie Dove Denmark South Carolina s First Female College President written by Kathryn Copeland and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daring to Educate written by Yolanda L. Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While President Emerita Johnnetta B. Cole is credited with propelling Spelman College (the oldest historically Black womens’ college) to national prominence, little is generally known about the strong academic foundation and legacy she inherited. Contrary to popular belief, the first four presidents of Spelman (including its two co-founders) were White women who led the early development of the College, armed with the belief that former slaves and free Black women should and could receive a college-level education. This book presents the history of Spelman’s foundation through the tenure of its fourth president, Florence M. Read, which ended in 1953. This compelling story is brought up to date by the contributions of Spelman’s current president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and by Johnnetta B. Cole.The book chronicles how the vision each of these women presidents, and their response to changing social forces, both profoundly shaped Spelman’s curriculum and influenced the lives and minds of thousands of young Black women. The authors trace the evolution of Spelman from its beginning–when the founders, aware of the limited occupations open to its graduates, strove to uplift the Black race by providing an academic education to disenfranchised Black women while also providing training for available careers--to the fifties when the college became an exemplar of liberal arts education in the South.This book fills a void in the history of Black women in higher education. It will appeal to a wide readership interested in women’s studies, Black history and the history of higher education in general.
Download or read book Women of Color in Higher Education written by Gaetane Jean-Marie and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian-Pacific American women whose increased presence in senior level administrative and academic positions in higher education is transforming the political climate to be more inclusive of women of color.
Download or read book A History of the Position of Dean of Women in a Selected Group of Co educational Colleges and Universities in the United States written by Lulu Haskell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women at the Helm written by Judith A. Sturnick and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays grew out of conversations among several women presidents at an AASCU annual meeting in Arizona. The essays reveal women's perspectives on leadership and the job of president. The pieces explore and record the realities of day-to-day experiences of women presidents striving to achieve important goals for higher education and for themselves. 'The authors are themselves a special company. Sometimes battleweary, but always unbowed, they bring us an amazing variety of concepts and experiences. They share with us, often in a very personal vein, their answers to perplexing questions: What's it like to be in charge? How does a woman get there? What does it take to demonstrate staying power? What about a second or third presidency? What happens to personal and family relationships along the way? And possibly most difficult of all, how can the special strengths of being female serve a role in society which has traditionally been seen as male?' The thirteen chapters of the volume are indeed 'an enlightening treat.'
Download or read book Answering the Call written by Beverly L. Bower and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role. This book presents the stories, and the reflections on their paths to leadership in higher education, of seven African American women. Each has been the first woman, first African American, or first African American woman in one or more of the positions of authority that she has held. Each has overcome the double bind of sexism and racism that can inhibit the professional attainment of African American women. Although they followed different paths to leadership, similarities in their experiences, values, and beliefs emerge. They also express a need to give back to those communities that nourished their growth and leadership – of which this book is a manifestation. At a time when significant turnover in college leadership is about to occur – presenting increased opportunities for women and minorities – these leaders hope that the strategies they describe, the insights they impart, the experiences they recount, and, most of all, the passion they have sustained for the betterment of and greater inclusiveness in higher education, will inspire the next generation of women to answer the leadership call.
