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| Higher Ed Needs Both Leaders and Entrepreneurs | Read this Article Once you get ideas on the table, you need someone who can negotiate the system, which academics aren't usually good at. |
| Bullying on Campus: How to Identify, Prevent, Resolve It | Read this Article A whopping 70% of targets leave the organization, resulting in costs for turnover plus for workers comp, disability and legal issues. |
| THE LAST LAUGH: I'm as Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going To Take This Anymore Mary Dee Wenniger, Editor/Publisher | Read this Article |
| Recruiting More Women of Color to Student Affairs | Read this Article 'When students see people that look like them, it provides the motivation to say, I can do that.' |
| What Motivates Women to Become Higher Ed Leaders? | Read this Article One described reluctantly taking an interim position, and then realizing how much she could accmplish in that job. |
| Tips to Health & Wellness for Highly Committed Women | Read this Article Depression and anxiety are not uncommon among high commitment women. |
| Core Competency Model Can Improve Searches | Read this Article To create the model, they looked at key events and learning, and analyzed what contributed to successes and derailments. |
| Crafting a Career as a Chicana Lawyer, Prof, Judge | Read this Article First generation college graduate. First Colorado Latina admitted to the Harvard University School of Law. First Hispanic chief deputy attorney general for Colorado. |
| THE LAST LAUGH: WIHE Evolves in Today's New World of Publishing | Read this Article With the support of our new followers and fans, together we'll reach a critical mass in the trenches and at the top on campus...and help women in the academy to get the last laugh. |
| Becoming a Leader: Preparation Meets Opportunity | Read this Article I had to be successful because there was no other option says Dr. Mary Oing-Sisay |
| Tips on How Leaders Can Transform Their Campuses | Read this Article 'There's a real battle in black society about the power of women in the culture.' |
| Navigating the Treachery of Promotion and Tenure | Read this Article Watch out for informal offers, often designed by 'vultures, jealous peers and effete snobs,' to suck in a junior professor and either tie up her time on projects unrelated to her research or diminish her work among those making tenure decisions. |
| Tips for Cultivating Resiliency in the Workplace | Read this Article We are unable to change anyone's behavior except our own, but we have unlimited opportunities to change and manage our reactions. |
| Calling on Women to Lead with Courage, Persistence | Read this Article You can't win at tennis by just hitting the ball to the middle of the court. It's the shots to the edges that win the game, the same shots at greatest risk of landing outside the line. |
| Chairs Can Encourage Faculty to Use Flexible Policies | Read this Article Are you choosing people based on schedule or based on excellence? |
| You Expect Me to Coach Millennial Student Athletes? | Read this Article More than earlier generations, they've been wooed as one-of-a-kinds and expect that treatment in college. |
| NILD Leadership Development Programs to Continue | Read this Article Leaders Institute was the most incredible eperience of my life. It put me on my path toward a wonderful career. |
| Tips to Create a Flexible Academic Culture on Campus | Read this Article Economic troubles trigger a range of human reactions. Some dig in their heels and become less resilient. People with jobs struggle to keep them. Insecurity breeds resistance to experimentation or change. |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Leaders Know Discipling and Mentoring are Situational | Read this Article As leaders, we must accurately assess the situation before deciding whether we're striving to be a mentor or a disciple. |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Twilight Series Provides Multicultural Insights | Read this Article Like other minority groups, the Cullens sit together in the cafeteria due to historical kinship, shared life experiences, tradition, cultural understanding and familiarity. |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: A New Chair Pursues Richer, Fuller, Better Results | Read this Article "Perhaps sharing personal reflection of what worked best for me as a first-year chair will be beneficial." |
| How to Endear Yourself to Your Boss | Read this Article Get assignments in early, clearly and concisely. |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: On-boarding: Turning Success into Significance in 90 days | Read this Article "To not grasp the importance of this critical on-boarding period is to risk failure or at least a long uphill struggle." |
| How to Be a Real WOMAN Leader in Higher Education | Read this Article "Obviously we need new definitions--our own personal definitions--of Real Women." |
| Presidential Perspectives: What Can We Learn | Read this Article "Use logic, creativity and problem-solving, with an eye on the big picture. A problem attacked leaf by leaf keeps coming back." |
| Tips on Getting a Community College Presidency | Read this Article 'You shouldn't have to leave your own college to become a president,'...which is especially important for women, who are place-bound more often than men. |
| Research Universities Work to Increase Faculty Flexibility | Read this Article "The new generation of faculty candidates is looking for work that's compatible with having a life." |
| Use Political Advocacy, Social Action to Benefit Your School | Read this Article "The inner workings of the political world can be as foreign to your school as your world of academia is to politicians. How do you bridge the gap?" |
| Experts Project Key Shifts in Work/Life Priorities | Read this Article "If we think we can change the culture without changing the leaders, we're smoking something funny." |
| Strategies to Reach Gender Parity in College Presidents | Read this Article "More openings coupled with fewer opportunities to rely on current presidents, should mean better chances for those women and people of color waiting in the wings--if, of course, there are more women and people of color waiting in the wings." |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Tools for Feminists in Today's Post-Feminist Climate | Read this Article "Now that I know all this, how can I live my life without going crazy?!!" |
| IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Academic Mobbing: Is Gender a Factor? | Read this Article "You know what stops mobbings? Somebody saying, 'Cut it out. Enough of this.'" |
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| A Perfect Storm: Gen X and Today's Academic Culture | Read this Article "Anti-family bias in policies and expectations rules out the option many women would choose and most men follow: a serious scholarly career that's compatible with family." |
| Spirituality Brings Strength to Women Under Stress | Read this Article "The term spirituality in its existential sense refers to a feeling of meaning and purpose--what we do while we're here." |
| When Sisters Turn into Saboteurs | Read this Article "Whether or not saboteurs manage to convince others that a woman is incompetent, they may thwart her career just by jolting her self-confidence." |
| Tips for Preparing for Your Next Career Move | Read this Article "Coaching helps you take the time to understand who you are and what is a good fit." |
| Learning to Become Fearless in Today's World | Read this Article "Don't be afraid to fail. No one has succeeded who hasn't failed along the way." |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: What if Cinderella Were a Professor? | Read this Article "Cinderella would recognize that not everyone is going to like her, and it has nothing to do with her." |
| Paper Dolls and Jacks: Women Presidents Look Back | Read this Article "What do presidents see when they look back? It really is about perception and memory." |
| What Brings Career Satisfaction to Women Administrators? | Read this Article "Sometimes satisfaction trickles down." |
| Women Describe Becoming Resilient Through Adversity | Read this Article "The gift of encouragement can provide individuals with the strength necessary to work through the difficult, dark moments." |
| The Last Laugh: What if a Woman Won Election to President? | Read this Article The importance of the 2008 election to women. |
| What's the Status of Women as Ed Leaders Worldwide? | Read this Article Women who have become leaders have somehow successfully navigated cultural constraints in order to get there. |
| Why Initiatives to Diversify Faculty Don't Work | Read this Article "Requiring that claims of bias prove intent allows higher eduction to preserve the meritocracy myth? |
| Despite Title IX, Sports Still Inequitable, Homophobic | Read this Article "If you're a single woman, men will ask you to prove you're straight by sleeping with them" |
| Women Lead with Spirit to Challenge the Status Quo | Read this Article "If we stay awake, the right people come into our lives at the right time. We're surrounded by angels." |
| The Real Story Behind the Passage of Title IX 35 Years Ago | Read this Article "Called the 'godmother' of Title IX' by the New York Times, Dr Bernice Sandler was an integral part of its creation and passage. |
| LGBTQ Faculty at DePaul: Conflict vs Conversation | Read this Article "What does it mean to be openly gay faculty at a Catholic School?" |
| President Recounts Her Own Dance of Leadership | Read this Article "Today some young women who watched their moms try to do it all are making different choices." |
| Faculty Satisfaction: A Gendered Issue of Integration | Read this Article "If you care about women, take steps to help them connect." |
| Listen to All Voices to Develop an Inclusive Community | Read this Article "Diversity is generally done using the salad bowl approach: throw people together and mix." |
| Tips to Use Mentoring and Mapping to Advance a Career | Read this Article "The male model of mentoring emphasizes asculine characteristics like hierarchy, while the female model values nurturing and support." |
| Overcome Gendered Stereotypes on Negotiating | Read this Article "View differences as opportunities. Negotation is an opportunity to expand the pie." |
| Making Room for the "I" Voice in Scholarship | Read this Article "For me, it was like letting out a tiger that had been caged up for years. My doctoral experience transformed me and set me free." |
| Symposium Offers Lessons from Life of Denice Denton | Read this Article "She opened doors and stood in them to let others through. She mentored young scholars and students. She pushed the institutions she inhabited to be better than they wanted to be." |
| Patterns of Gender and Racial Privilege | Read this Article Please see "How Priviledges of Gender and Race Affect Academic Life" at the end of the article |
| Women Applying for Presidency Face 'Border Patrol' | Read this Article "We're recruiting 21st century presidents using 19th century processes" |
| Ex-Coach at CSU Fresno Wins $5.85 Million for Sex Bias | Read this Article "If they're going to discriminate, they'd better be a whole lot more careful and subtle than they were at Fresno. |
| Check Your Internal Messages about Women Leaders | Read this Article We choose every day if we're going to respond to assumptions, or just be who we are. |
| How to Engage the Lisa Simpsons of Today's Academia | Read this Article Perhaps it's their confidence in themselves that drives them to behave like 'girls gone wild.' |
| The Dance of Leadership: Claiming Your Style | Read this Article "Leadership is about figuring out who you are and what you're passionate about." |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Women Leading Athletics: The AD Search Process | Read this Article "The interaction between individual characteristics and structural barriers in the search process help explain the lack of women in the AD role." |
| How to Help Women Online Learners to Succeed | Read this Article "Work and family constraints that channel women into online programs also make it harder for them to finish." |
| How to Build Career Connections Through Networking | Read this Article "The number one mistake that women make in networking is to take the same approach to networking that we do to finding girlfriends" |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Riding the Bull: A New Scholar in the Academy | Read this Article "I live an academic life where women learn to ignore being ignored, even as they must have the confidence to research, to fill the blank page |
| Many Women Trustees Just Don't Get the Equity Agenda | Read this Article "Very few women were attending to gender issues. Some weren't even aware of gender issues." |
| How to Address Homophobia in Women's Athletics | Read this Article Playing on a team offers a rich education in getting comfortable with diversity |
| Campus Work/Life Policies: Moving from Policy to Practice | Read this Article Balancing work and family life is one of today's leading gender issues |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Creating a New College Navigating Change by Following the Path of Faith Dr. Darlyne Bailey | Read this Article "As the first in many ways, I am forever mindful to do my absolute best to make sure I am not the last. |
| Making the most of expected high presidential turnover | Read this Article The ACE 2007 report The American President offers some answers and raises disturbing questions. |
| Tipping the balance toward sane work-life practices | Read this Article Changing demographcs also have increased the demand for family-friendly policies across all campuses |
| THE LAST LAUGH: Where have all the words gone? | Read this Article Like shells on a beach, our words lie about, waiting for someone to pick them up, take them home with them and give them the value they deserve. |
| Harvard's New President Reflects Feminist Values | Read this Article Hold the presses! Harvard's historic selection last month of Dr. Drew Gilpin...rocked the campus and the world. |
| The Theory of Plenty: Form Strategic Partnerships | Read this Article Unless they're based on trust and reliance, partnerships risk being temporary and transient. |
| How to Motivate Your School's Compliance with Title IX | Read this Article If you're consistent, fair and objective in your approach, you can't be labeled as a one-issue person. |
| How to Motivate Your School's Compliance with Title IX | Read this Article If you're consistent, fair and objective in your approach, you can't be labeled as a one-issue person. |
| By Working Together, We Shall Overcome | Read this Article For every woman who succeeds, I succeed a little. For every woman who fails I fail a little. |
| The CAO Position: A Stepping Stone to the Presidency? | Read this Article Six leaders discuss the CAO position and why they love it |
| An 'Accidental Academic' Strips Stereotypes | Read this Article I'm interested in dance, sexuality and feminism--and exotic dancers sat at the nexus of that. |
| How to Lead through Hospitality, Rather than Heroics | Read this Article Not domination but hospitality must become the leadership norm |
| Strategies to Manage Conflicts on Campus | Read this Article Well-managed conflict can bring wonderful benefits... |
| THE LAST LAUGH: A New Skill for 2007: Enjoy the Benefits of Reframing | Read this Article Just when you think you know it all, it all changes--or at least your perception of it does. |
| 'Disparate Effect' on Women Could End the Tenure System | Read this Article "To think of tenure ethically, I had to start thinking about it differently." |
| What New Faculty Women Wish They'd Known Earlier | Read this Article 'Come in with strategies in hand, instead of getting yourself knee-deep in mud and then looking for a strategy to pull yourself out' |
| 'Culturally Competent Mentoring' Serves Non-Traditionals | Read this Article We all serve as mentors. We all wear that hat. |
| Advancing Your Career in Athletics Administration | Read this Article Right now the focus is on women and minorities because often the pool is thin |
| IPOD Contest Winners Announced for October and November | Read this Article |
| Strategies to Increase Gender Equity on a Rural Campus | Read this Article Potvin began a proactive campaign to recruit, retain and advance women and minorities at her college. |
| The Best Teachers Ask Big Questions | Read this Article Great teachers transform how students think and live long after the final exam |
| Hierarchial Dysfunction and Mobbing in the Academy | Read this Article Potential shifts in the power structure can trigger episodes of severe workplace hostility... |
| Integrating Passions in Research, Teaching and Service | Read this Article Projects that clearly connect research, teaching and service should get competitive release time |
| Headhunters Advise How to Be the Cream of the Crop | Read this Article Reframe the negotiation process from |
| MOVEABLE TYPE The Moral Purpose of Higher Education | Read this Article Book review; Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University |
| IPOD contest | Read this Article Women in Higher Education is getting ready to Podcast...will you be ready? |
| What Can We Learn from the life of Denice Denton? | Read this Article |
| Canadian Women Share Insights on Leadership | Read this Article Four |
| Feminist Academic Leadership: Parallels to President MacKenzie Allen, in Commander in Chief | Read this Article As a feminist, I found the most exciting aspect of this show was the phrase "Madame President" being broadcast into millions of American homes... |
| Making the Academy More Friendly to Women | Read this Article Academic leaders need to do more to publicly shame and satirize the most egregious conduct. |
| IN HER OWN WORDS Lesbian Administrators: An Invisible Asset | Read this Article It is important historically to write this group of women into the books, because their presence and existence are undeniable. |
| Canadian Presidents Share from Experience | Read this Article "Master gardeners" cultivate and nuture the next generation of women leaders. |
| Top Women Campus Leaders Share Key Lessons | Read this Article What kind of leader are you? A carrot? An egg? or a coffee bean? |
| How to Play Nicely with Colleagues on Campus | Read this Article When people are exposed to research and have an opportunity to reflect on the kind of leaders they are, that's when civil behavior occurs. |
| Leading vs. Managing by Community College Chairs | Read this Article By maximizing their management efficiency, chairs can gain the time and opportunities to exert true leadership. |
| Activist Provides Guidelines to Negotiating a Life | Read this Article "If we don't make a ruckus about it, who the hell will?" |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Mother Knows Best: Her Skills Serve Academia | Read this Article "My extended leave of absence for mothering had indeed prepared me well for my return to campus." |
| THE LAST LAUGH Is It Time for a Short, Black Lesbian to Lead Harvard? | Read this Article Harvard gets to choose the next leader...our editor and publisher wonders... |
| Values as a Foundation for Leadership in Higher Education | Read this Article Leadership has two components for her: Being inspirational and exploring solutions. |
| The Female Privilege Checklist | Read this Article In contemplating a list of male privileges...we created a list of female privilege to share, post and comment on |
| Self-Doubt and an Ethic of Care Inspire Women Leaders | Read this Article Mentors, books and sharing stories can help us value ourselves and move forward |
| Why Women Excel as Transformation Campus Leaders | Read this Article "You don't improve if you don't change" |
| IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Mentoring in the Changing Academy: Attending to Context - Part 1 | Read this Article Part II in March 2006 will provide practical tips on how to create an administrative fellows program on your campus |
| Why Women Should Lead in Philanthropy | Read this Article Due to longevity, women inherit 70% of all estates |
| IN HER OWN WORDS: Xena and I: Female Empowerment | Read this Article And then I thought: If Xena could do it, so could I. |
| How to Say "You're Fired" with Dignity and Respect | Read this Article Firing is hard for anyone and especially for women, because they value empathy and relationships. When there's no alternative, you want to do it right... |
| Hard Won Tips for Moving Into Administration | Read this Article "Mental health really is teaching. It involves communication, problem solving and identifying strengths," she told WIHE. It was the perfect background for college administration. |
| Top 10 Leadership Tips for Women on Campus | Read this Article Here are the strategies I have found most useful in guiding my behavior when in leadership positions |
| Toward a New Identity Framework for Women Leaders | Read this Article Leadership personas emerge from our individual psychology and are unique |
| Negotiating: Why Women Don't Ask and What to Do | Read this Article We need women and girls to use their negotiating skills for themselves and for society to let them |
| Meg Wheatley Preaches a Revolution Led by Women | Read this Article It's time for the women to gather! |
| Tips to Gracefully Climb into Athletics Administration | Read this Article Working up the food chain might seem daunting.... |
| Strategies for Increasing Faculty Diversity | Read this Article HERC speaker tells how to make diversity a reality on campus |
| For classes and conferences | Read this Article WIHE issues are available for your class or upcoming conference |
| Supporting Students' Search for Meaning in Their Lives | Read this Article Although some say their spirituality is closely linked to their religion, the two are not the same |
| How to Help Women to Get Back in the Game | Read this Article Start preparing your comeback at the time you step out! |
| Crisis in Female Coaches Shortchanges Women, Athletes | Read this Article Today's female athletes are half as likely to have women head coaches as before the passage of Title IX in 1972 |
| What's the Trend on Women Getting College Presidencies? | Read this Article "Until you called me, I thought we were making progess."--Bill Funk |
| The Last Laugh: It Ain't Easy Being Editor | Read this Article Mary Dee Wenniger, Editor and Publisher |
| New Web Site Features at www.wihe.com | Read this Article Managing the remodeled web site is associate publisher Elizabeth Farrington, now also Director of Online Services. |
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