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Director receives appointment to college board Davida Harrell-Williams, director of Norfolk State’s Auxiliary Services, has been appointed to serve on the Paul D. Camp Community College Local Board representing the city of Suffolk. Harrell-Williams will finish the term of a board member who recently resigned, whose term would have expired June 2017. Harrell-Williams joins an outstanding group of…

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At the 2016 Faculty Honors Celebration, the Dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presided over the investiture of faculty who are the College’s latest recipients of named chairs.  The Dean described the named (or endowed) chair as the highest honor the University bestows upon its faculty.  Then he announced the four recipients of this honor: 4 male faculty. No female faculty were singled out as deserving of the University’s highest honor this year.  

The second chart tracks the number of men and women who have become recipients of named chairs in CLAS in the period from 1986 to 2016.  During that time, 49 faculty have been honored with named chair appointments: 38 men and 11 women. Two of the eleven female recipients have been honored with a 3-year term-limited chair, a folding chair in comparison to the more solid seating enjoyed by the 8 men and 1 woman who have each held named professorships for twenty years or more.  

We note that only faculty who have reached the rank of Professor are eligible to receive endowed professorships, and that women faculty are not represented at that rank in the same numbers as male faculty, a phenomenon we address in another posting.  But the ratio of women faculty to male faculty at the Professor level in CLAS is far greater than 0 to 4.

Female faculty received 2 of the 2 service honors that were bestowed at the Honors Celebration, and 8 of the 15 teaching and mentoring awards.