Higher Education

While women have made enormous strides in higher education, progress has been uneven. Women now receive a majority of undergraduate degrees but disparities remain, particularly at graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral levels. Colleges and universities still reflect inequities based on race, ability, geography and income. And more efforts must focus on advancing women and women of color into tenured and leadership positions with institutions of higher learning. There is growing concern about the rising cost of higher education and how to improve quality and access. The financial crisis of 2008-09 has shrunk many endowment funds and reduced the number of scholarships available as well as making state and community colleges more competitive and less accessible. The effects of corporatization on college campuses are also a source of concern for the quality and independence of scholarship, including for women’s studies and other inter-disciplinary programs.

A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education

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The Association of American Colleges and Universities has released a report that compiles the latest data on women and gender equity in higher education. The report, "A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education," made its debut in Seattle during the association's annual meeting, which ended on January 24, 2009. The report updates a 1995 "data-driven" overview of women in higher education published by the American Council of Education, the association said in a written statement. It concludes that women have made strides in higher education, but the progress isn't across the board. Among the topics explored in "A Measure of Equity" are inequities for women in specific fields, how the careers of female faculty members are affected by families, and the growing pool of women in contingent faculty positions with no chance of being promoted.

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http://chronicle.com/news/article/5847/report-looks-at-how-far-women-have-come-in-higher-education
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Report: “Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Discrimination.”

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Report: "Women, Work and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era' Discrimination." This report is based on the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference, organized so as to take stock of the extant research and interventions and to chart a course forward. The report highlights the effects of a diffuse set of barriers to women's participation.

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http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw/newfeministsolutions/reports/NFS2-Women_Work_and_the_Academy.pdf
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Barnard Center for Research on Women

Paper: “Childcare options in South Korea: experiences and perceptions of female college faculty.”

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Paper: "Childcare options in South Korea: experiences and perceptions of female college faculty." This paper examines how societal and workplace cultures prevent people from using childcare options available to them and suggests new initiatives in childcare policies to create a more family-friendly work environment. The paper is soon to be published in the Journal about Women in Higher Education.

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http://bis.wist.re.kr/english

The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality

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835 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Ph. (415) 817-4525

http://crgs.sfsu.edu/
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The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality (CRGS) is an interdisciplinary community of San Francisco State University faculty, students, and staff dedicated to studying innovative social science research questions, methods, and theories, and training new investigators. Frequently working in collaboration with community organizations, the CRGS is committed to producing new and useful knowledge about sexuality and gender. Our goal is to promote social justice and well-being by empirically challenging how inequalities undermine healthy sexuality.

CRGS is proud to be a part of the National Centers on Sexuality (NCS) at San Francisco State University. At the NCS, interdisciplinary sexuality science, advocacy, capacity building and training come together through the collaboration of three organizations:

CRGS, producing new knowledge to advance social justice and social change;

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CRGS Faculty:

Dr. Colleen Hoff, Director
E-mail: choff@sfsu.edu

Dr. Héctor Carrillo, Research Faculty
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Dr. Jessica Fields, Research Faculty
E-mail: jfields@sfsu.edu

Dr. David Frost, Research Faculty
Email: frost@sfsu.edu

Dr. Gil Herdt, Research Faculty
E-mail: gherdt@sfsu.edu

Dr. Rita Melendez, Research Faculty
E-mail: rmelende@sfsu.edu

Dr. Lynn Sorsoli, Research Faculty
E-mail: lsorsoli@msn.com

Dr. Deborah Tolman, Founder

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Adult Male Circumcision:

Héctor Carrillo, Principal Investigator
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Michael Diaz, Research Assistant
E-mail: michaeldiaz06@gmail.com

Walter Gomez, Research Associate
E-mail: wgomez@sfsu.edu

Rachel Howard, Research Assistant
E-mail: rachelhoward1@gmail.com


Female Adolescent Risk Project (FARP):

Lynn Sorsoli, Principal Investigator
E-mail: lsorsoli@sfsu.edu

Gabriela Candelaria, Research Asst.
E-mail: gabyc@sfsu.edu

Allegra Hirschman, Project Coordinator
E-mail: allegra.hirschman@gmail.com


The Gay Couples Study Team:

Colleen Hoff, Principal Investigator
E-mail: choff@sfsu.edu

Brianne Amato, Research Assistant
E-mail: bamato@sfsu.edu

Sean Beougher, Project Director
E-mail: seancb@sfsu.edu

Deepalika Chakravarty, Statistician
E-mail: deepalika.chakravarty@ucsf.edu

Anthony Freeman, former RA
E-mail: afreeman@sfsu.edu

Carla Garcia, Research Associate
E-mail: ccgarcia@sfsu.edu

Walter Gomez, Research Associate
E-mail: wgomez@sfsu.edu


Trayectos Research Team:

Héctor Carrillo, Principal Investigator
E-mail: hector@sfsu.edu

Julia Sinclair-Palm, Research Assistant
E-mail: palmjulia@gmail.com


Honoring Leadership and Diversity - Women of Color and the CRGS (HOLD):

Sydney Seifert, Research Assistant
E-mail: sydney.seifert@gmail.com

Desiree Valdez, Research Assistant
E-mail: dc.valdez@gmail.com


Research on Inequality, Sexuality and Education (RISE):

Jessica Fields, Principal Investigator
E-mail: jfields@sfsu.edu

Lanice Avery, Research Assistant
E-mail: princessnicie@yahoo.com

Kendra Bloom, Research Assistant
E-mail: kbloom8@gmail.com

Allyse Grey, Research Assistant
E-mail: msgray86@yahoo.com

Sheerein Hosseini, Research Assistant
E-mail: activistforhumanity@yahoo.com

Christina Monroe, Research Assistant
E-mail: cmonroe@sfsu.edu


Women, Sexuality and Religion:

Rita Melendez, Principal Investigator
E-mail: rmelende@sfsu.edu

Allison Kirschbaum, Research Assistant
E-mail: akirschbaum@gmail.com

Alberto Rodriguez, Research Assistant
E-mail: alberto_rf@hotmail.com


Administrative Staff:

Liz McClelland, NCS Operations Manager
E-mail: lizm@sfsu.edu

Brianne Amato, CRGS Administrative Assistant
E-mail: crgs@sfsu.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Body Image & Wellness, Awareness & Education, Communications, Media & Gender, Culture & Identity, Disparities, Family & Society, Higher Education, Religion & Spirituality, Sexuality & Gender, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Communications, Culture & Society, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health, Reproductive Rights & Sexuality

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CRGS at work
 
With the Gay Couples Study group joining CRGS in 2008, the research teams in CRGS became even stronger! The Gay Couples Study is now in the final stages of longitudinal data collection for both its qualitative and quantitative arms. Data collection for the qualitative interviews should finish by July, 2009 and the quantitative surveys should finish by February, 2010. Currently, the Gay Couples Study Team is working on several manuscripts for publication in profession journals, and will be presenting findings at the upcoming National HIV Prevention Conference in August.

The Girls' Risk Project, with PI Dr. Lynn Sorsoli at the helm, was recently completed. This study examined girls' decisions to engage in noncoital sexual behaviors, and the ways girls' narratives of those experiences differ by racial/ethnic group. It also explored the roles played by girls' health beliefs, gender beliefs, and behavioral contexts. Dr. Sorsoli and Project Coordinator Allegra Hirschman are now hard at work on an innovative new project that will examine the risks IRB members perceive regarding adolescent participation in sexuality studies, how adolescents perceive risk and experience study participation in sexuality studies and how the perceived risk and actual experiences of adolescents compare to the risks perceived by IRB members.

While wrapping up on his Trayectos Study, Dr. Héctor Carrillo began work on a new project focused on adult male circumcision. In the Circumcision Study, Dr. Carrillo will study the cultural factors of adult circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy for Mexican immigrants. After facing some initial recruitment challenges, the study is now just 5 participants away from reaching the desired sample size.

Dr. Jessica Fields and her research team recently capped off their Jailed Women and HIV Education project, a feminist analysis of incarcerated women's experiences of HIV education and risk, with culminating experience events at both the CRGS and the San Francisco County Jail. The Jailed Women and HIV Education study brings new attention, funding, and employment opportunities to the concerns of women of color locked up in San Francisco and other county jails. In addition, Dr. Fields continues to work alongside Drs. Rita Melendez and Amy Sueyoshi on H.O.L.D. (Honoring Leadership and Diversity) which involves interviews with administrators, faculty, and graduate students to investigate the barriers for women of color’s involvement at sexuality centers such as CRGS and within academia more broadly.

Dr. Rita Melendez is examining the relations between gender roles, religion, and HIV prevention among Latina and African-American women, and has recently begun work on the interview portion of her study.
 

Reports & Resources

Choi, K., Hoff, C., Gregorich, S., Grinstead, O., Gomez, C., Hussey, W. (2008), The Efficacy of Female Condom Skills Training in HIV Risk Reduction among Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial, American Journal of Public Health. 98(10). 1803-1813.


Hoff, C., Pals, S., Purcell, D., Parsons, J, Halkitis, P, Remien, R., Gomez, C. (2006). Is sexual risk behavior with main partners impacted differentially than risk with non-main partner in an HIV prevention trial targeting HIV-positive gay and bisexual men? AIDS and Behavior, 10(3).

Fisher, H., Purcell, D., Hoff, C., Parsons, J., O’Leary, A. (2006) Recruitment source and behavioral risk patterns of HIV-positive men who have sex with men. AIDS and Behavior, 10 (4).

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Applied Women's Studies Program

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150 E. 10th St.
Claremont, CA 91711
Ph. (909) 607-7964

http://www.cgu.edu/pages/1477.asp
Linda.Perkins@cgu.edu


If you want to change society, you need knowledge, credentials, and practical skills. The MA in Applied Women's Studies combines first-rate education with a caring, supportive faculty, hands-on experience, and career-enchancing skills.

Applied Women's Studies gives you the opportunity to use knowledge in women's issues as a vital force for change in today's world. At the heart of Applied Women's Studies is an internship requirement. The internship affords unique opportunities far beyond the walls of the classroom.

Greater Los Angeles offers one of the richest cultural mixes in the world, providing a wide variety of possibilities for internships in education, legal advocacy, community organizations, and women's centers, performing arts in the schools, prisons, shelters, and homes for battered women.

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Linda M. Perkins, Director, Applied Women's Studies
E-mail: linda.perkins@cgu.edu

Janet Farrell Brodie, Chair, History Department
E-mail: janet.brodie@cgu.edu

Robert Dawidoff, History Department
E-mail: robert.dawidoff@cgu.edu

Patricia Easton, Philosophy Department
E-mail: patricia.easton@cgu.edu

Lori Anne Ferrell, English and History Departments
E-mail: lori.ferrell@cgu.edu

Gondy Leroy, School of Information Systems & Technology
E-mail: gondy.leroy@cgu.edu

Jean Lipman-Blumen, Drucker School of Management
E-mail: jeanlipman@earthlink.net

Wendy Martin, Chair, English Department
E-mail: wendy.martin@cgu.edu

Tammi J. Schneider, School of Religion
E-mail: tammi.schneider@cgu.edu

Jean Reith Schroedel, School of Politics & Economics
E-mail: jean.schroedel@cgu.edu

Gail Thompson, School of Educational Studies
E-mail: gail.thompson@cgu.edu

Karen Jo Torjesen, School of Religion
E-mail: karen.torjesen@cgu.edu

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Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Education & Education Reform

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Perkins, Linda. 1997. "The African American Female Elite:  The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880-1960." Harvard Educational Review. 

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Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women

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2004 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
Ph. 651-690-6783

http://www2.stkate.edu/center-for-women/home
centerforwomen@stkate.edu


 The Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women’s Research, Resources, and Scholarship at St. Catherine University works to build a community of faculty and student scholars and activists working on issues of race, class, gender, and other differences; gather and share resources relating to these issues; and highlight the leadership and work of women at the University and in various communities for women’s justice and equality. 

Throughout its history, the Center has been a catalyst and supporter of many projects and programs that address women’s issues, from the building of a strong Women’s Studies program to a student-directed campaign to address the concerns of student parents. The Center’s commitment to open, honest dialogue about tough issues and a belief in the necessity of work for justice form the backbone of the work we do.

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Women's Research & Resource Center

Beverly Guy Sheftall, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College.  She is also adjunct professor at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies where she teaches graduate courses. At the age of sixteen, she entered Spelman College where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.  After graduation with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English.  In 1968, she entered Atlanta to pursue a master's degree in English; her thesis was entitled, "Faulkner's Treatment of Women in His Major Novels."  A year later she began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Center for Research on Women

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Memphis, TN 38152-3530
Ph. (901) 678-2770
Fx. (901) 678-3652
http://www.memphis.edu/crow/
crow@memphis.edu
lynda.sagrestano@memphis.edu

The Center for Research on Women (CROW) at the University of Memphis conducts, promotes and disseminates scholarship on women and social inequality. CROW's approach to research, theory and programming emphasizes the structural relationships among race, class, gender and sexuality, particularly in the U.S. South and among women of color.

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Lynda M. Sagrestano, Ph.D., Director
Ph. (901) 678-2780
E-mail: lsagrstn@memphis.edu

Lornette Stokes, B.S., Administrative Secretary
Ph. (901) 678-2770
E-mail: lwstokes@memphis.edu

Teresa A. Diener, M.A., Project Coordinator, Community Voice Evaluation
Ph. (901) 678-2293
E-mail: tdiener@memphis.edu

Naketa M. Edney, M.A., Research Associate, Community Voice Evaluation
Ph. (901) 678-2153
E-mail: nedney@memphis.edu

Jennifer Gooch, M.A., Research Associate, Women's Economic Security: Campaign
Ph. (901) 678-2642
E-mail: jgooch@memphis.edu

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Affirmative Action, Awareness & Education, Higher Education, Women in STEM, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Education & Education Reform, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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CROW's brand of action-oriented, community-based research strengthens the public's understanding of women's experiences in Memphis and contributes to local, regional and national policy discussions.

Women's Academic Network
The Women's Academic Network provides women on our campus with an informal opportunity to meet new colleagues, socialize, and discuss topics of interest and relevance to women in academia.  

Women's Research Forum
The Center invites women scholars to present their work on campus in a public forum.  

Memphis Safe Campus Initiative
CROW is conducting research on campus safety, as well as working to prevent and reduce violence against women on the University of Memphis campus.

In addition to ongoing research, the Center:

* is heading a collaborative of over 50 Memphis organizations dedicated to reducing the numbers of teen pregnancy in our community.

* is working with other University of Memphis faculty, staff and students to create a Safe Zone for GLBTQ students on our campus.

Current Research Agenda for Spring 2010:

 

 

 

 

  • Families First and Tennessee's Single Female-Headed Households
    Research to assess Tennessee's TANF program, Families First, and its effectiveness in serving the state's single female-headed households. Sponsored by the Women's Foundation of Greater Memphis.
     
  • Sexual Harassment of Teens in Memphis Middle and High Schools
    An investigation of the frequency, types, and long-term impact of sexual harassment experienced by teenagers in Memphis middle and high schools.  Supported in part by The Urban Child Institute and the University of Memphis Faculty Research Grant Program.
     
  • Infant Mortality in Memphis
    Evaluation of Community Voice, a new intervention to reduce infant mortality.   Supported in part by the Tennessee Governor’s Office of Children’s Care Coordination.
     
  • Campus Safety for Women
    Project to assess, reduce and prevent violence against women on University of Memphis campuses.
     
  • Preconception Health
    Project in development that would address pregnancy planning, timing, and preparation for healthy pregnancy among urban adolescent girls, with goals to prevent unintended pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes.
     
  • Supporting Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
    Project in development to systematically increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women faculty in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines at the University of Memphis.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Extensive back list of working papers and bibliographies on Southern women and women of color. Contact CROW for list and order information.

    Examples of recent publications include:

    * Sagrestano, Lynda. 2009. Nowhere to hide: A Look At the Pervasive  Atmosphere of Sexual Harassment in Memphis Area Middle & High Schools.  

    * CROW. 2008. Center for Research on Women: 2007-2008 Annual Report.

    * Across Races & Nations: Building New Communities in the U.S. South, Published September 2006 by The Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis (TN); the Highlander Research and Education Center (TN); and the Southern Regional Council (GA). This 370-page report published in English and Spanish provides information to activists, philanthropists and others who seek to address immigration and the needs of immigrants as part of larger social justice agendas in the South. Includes project and participant overviews, case studies, glossaries of U.S. immigration terms and policies, economic fact sheets, maps, "Know Your Rights" workshop guides for immigrants, and other materials for popular education.

    * What Is a Living Wage in Memphis?, David H. Ciscel, working paper (2002).

    * Advocates for Girls: Promoting Success in Early Adolescence, Barbara Ellen Smith and Claire Porter (1998).

    * Profiles: A Report on the Women and Girls of Greater Memphis, Martha Schmidt (1997).

     

     

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