Early Feminists and the Education Debates
Sheville Staff
In 4th q. 2007, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press released Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos' Early Feminists and the Education Debates. In the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, Feminists had to counter Rousseau's and traditional arguments for women's education being limited to domestic concerns. Sotiropoulos details how feminists used Romantic arguments to subvert these arguments and to stake a claim for women’s advanced education.
Julie Duriga, CPA
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Study shows less decline in Religious Faith by College Attendees
J. Lee Lehman
Bucking almost everyone’s expectations, a new study clearly demonstrates that those young adults who attend college – whether or not they get a degree – show less decline in religious faith than young adults who don’t attend college at all. Three different measures of religious faith were studied, and all three show the same trend. It appears that the perception that higher education was contributing to the decline in religious faith was actually resulting from a measurable decline attributable to age, not education.. For more information, please see http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/14/religion
Gap diminishes in Gender-based Administrative Styles
J. Lee Lehman
A study of leadership styles among administrators of community colleges shows
that both women and men who are community college administrators are changing
their approach to leadership – and that as a result, there is less difference
between their styles compared to 1985, when the last such study was implemented.
One of the more interesting differences is that women have been far more likely
to actively seek out mentors than men. Perhaps this is like asking for directions?
For more information:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/22/gender
Glass Ceiling in Academia may be Shattering
J. Lee Lehman
Beginning July 1, 2007, half the Ivy League Schools will have women presidents. Unfortunately, the gap in tenured professorships remains.
For more information:
http://www2.universitybusiness.com/newssummary.aspx?news_date=2007-05-04&news_id=14848#top
Educate a Girl. Change the World.
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Why Just Girls? In 2001 the World Bank identified education of girls as the key to effective development, saying countries that promote women’s rights and increase their access to schooling have lower poverty rates, faster economic growth, healthier populations and less government corruption than countries that don’t. www.givegirlsachance.org
