Creation of a Council for the Advancement of Women is perhaps the most recent example of WSU’s commitment to expanding opportunities for women. And Sanja Roje, new assistant professor in the Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC), is among the most recent faculty additions to help the university meet that commitment, in particular in the physical […]
A Council for the Advancement of Women at WSU has been established by President V. Lane Rawlins. “The group will begin by analyzing barriers to the advancement of women to department chair, full professor, senior administrative and professional posts, and to positions in the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering,” Rawlins said. According to statistics nationwide, […]
At least half the students and half the employees at Washington State University are women. The exception to that demographic can be found among faculty, especially senior faculty. It’s an imbalance that is shared by most universities nationwide, and it’s one that WSU is well aware of and is working to remedy. As of Fall […]
For a second year, the Women’s Resource Center at Washington State University will welcome students June 4 – 8 to the 2003 National Education for Women’s Leadership Inland Northwest Summer Institute, a program dedicated to women and public leadership. NEW Leadership focuses on women’s leadership education to empower them to become leaders who can make […]
Six women — all unique, all touching the lives of those around them. The 2003 Women of Distinction Award winners will be honored at the Women’s Recognition Luncheon on March 27. All are eligible to receive the Woman of the Year Award. The winners are:Laurie Carlson, doctoral student in historyChio Flores, associate director of financial […]
Editor’s note: An article titled “Gender gap widening in college enrollments,” focusing on the growing number of female college students nationwide and at WSU, was run in the Jan. 10, 2003, issue of WSU Today. That item was an abbreviated and localized version of a Dec. 23 article by Jake Ellison in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer […]
More than 30 young women from the Northwest will be at Washington State University this week to learn how to become politically involved from women who are making their voices heard in today’s political arena. Women are 52 percent of the voting population, yet they are scarce in the nation’s policy-making and decision-making bodies, said […]