Found 233 articles

  • The Pandemic's Motherhood Penalty

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    It's May, and I'm sitting at my dining room table. It's covered in pencils, crayons, scissors, worksheets and overstuffed binders. The table is now...
  • Making Scholarship Matter: An Interview With Jennifer Harvey

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Kate Blanchard
    It isn't easy to be an activist while also being a scholar, parent and teacher. For Dr. Jennifer Harvey , professor of religion at Drake University...
  • Documentary Chronicles the Positive Impact of Competitive Sports

    • Jul 29, 2020
    • Lois Elfman
    What if former athletes could show you how they learned the life lessons that fueled them through their careers? The documentary film After the Gam...
  • Hope Is Not Enough

    • Jun 30, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    I'm doomscrolling again—relentlessly perusing social media and dwelling in the terribleness of our world. Police Brutality and Protests Once again,...
  • Consultant Works for LGBTQI+ Students' Safety

    • Jun 30, 2020
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    Change makes people uncomfortable. People will hold fast to beliefs, behaviors or activities until the pain of change is less than the pain of stay...
  • Whether We Improve or Not

    • Jun 30, 2020
    • Katie Rose Guest Pryal
    The past few months of social distancing and stay‐at‐home orders due to the COVID‐19 pandemic made me think about how we are already isolated. I'm ...
  • We All Have to Push the Van

    • Jun 9, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    Lately, I'm thinking about one of my favorite movies, Little Miss Sunshine (2006). Amid this pandemic, I'm reminded of a particular scene, one that...
  • The Move to Online—Getting It Done

    • Jun 9, 2020
    • Lois Elfman
    In the wake of COVID‐19, colleges and universities moved their classes to online platforms. Some academics have previous experience teaching online...
  • Self‐Isolation: Perspective From a Brain Aneurysm Survivor

    • Jun 9, 2020
    • Audrey Wick
    Isolation became part of the academic landscape in 2020 when institutions responded to a global pandemic. Physical classroom doors shut as colleges...
  • The Juggle Is Unreal

    • Apr 30, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    I've spent the last few months scrolling and clicking. Scrolling through news sites to see the latest information on the COVID‐19 pandemic. Scrolli...
  • Women's Emotional Labor in Higher Ed and the COVID‐19 Crisis

    • Apr 30, 2020
    • Karen Costa
    Countless studies have found that women do more unpaid labor than men, both within the workplace and at home. Gemma Hartley, author of Fed Up: Emot...
  • 10 Leadership Strategies in Times of Uncertainty

    • Apr 30, 2020
    • Mays Imad
    “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” —Toni Morrison ...
  • How COVID-19 affects talent attraction and what you can do

    • Apr 2, 2020
    Note: This content is provided by Wiley to help with your candidate search during this time. It is not included in the Women in Higher Education ne...
  • How COVID-19 affects your job search and what you can do

    • Apr 2, 2020
    Note: This content is provided by Wiley to help with your job search during this time. It is not included in the Women in Higher Education newslett...
  • The Juggle is Real

    • Mar 31, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    I'm in a seminar room with graduate students from my alma mater. We're talking about sexism and teaching. I brought in candy to soften the blow. On...
  • It's OK to Say ‘No,’ Even If You're a Woman

    • Mar 31, 2020
    • Katie Rose Guest Pryal
    A variety of outlets, from The Wall Street Journal to the Harvard Business Review , reported on a 2018 study of “office housework” and how women—pa...
  • Caldwell Oversees Grant to Build Retention and Success for Engineering Students

    • Mar 31, 2020
    • Lois Elfman
    Florida A&M University, a historically black university founded in 1887, continually endeavors to give students opportunities to excel. In the earl...
  • The Past Doesn't Have to Be the Present

    • Mar 6, 2020
    • Kelly J. Baker
    In January, I visited the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. One of the things not a lot of people know about me is that, for ...
  • Higher Ed's Looming Women's Crisis

    • Mar 6, 2020
    • Amanda Furiasse
    A growing amount of higher education research forecasts an imminent decline in student enrollment and warns of an impending storm on the horizon. T...
  • Museum Celebrates a Year of Female‐Identifying Artists

    • Mar 6, 2020
    • Mary Lou Santovec
    To recognize the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will devote...