Gender Equity or Bust!

Since 1992 women faculty and administrators have turned to Women in Higher Education as their barometer of campus climate and survival guide to the topology of career advancement. Now, in this lively compendium of articles from the newsletter's first eight years, editors Mary Dee Wenniger and Mary Helen Conroy provide a wild ride across the turbulent gender equity landscape of American higher education. They offer a broad view of the progress women have made toward achieving full and fair career recognition, and assess the distance that remains to be covered. Readers will appreciate the book's blend of serious commentary, sage advice, and healthy doses of wry humor, as well as successful strategies from women who have broken the academic glass ceiling and scaled campus career ladders. Praise for Women in Higher Education At last the best of Women in Higher Education. For years their strategic approach to leadership issues has kept me reading eagerly. Insights, chuckles, and tough love- it is all there. I welcome this important collection of best practices and wise advice from women of experience. -Dr. Cynthia A. Secor, director, Higher Education Resource Series, Mid-America Why Gender Equity or Bust? Because for so many years you have been the periodical to read if I wanted to hear the truth about what was happening with women in higher education! What a treat it will be to have the best of the best in book form. I look forward to it with enthusiasm. -Carolyn Hershberger, executive director of IT, Olympic College, Washington Gender Equity or Bust! is a mid-flight snapshot of one of the most remarkable results of the 1970s women's movement, changing the face of American higher education as women have moved steadily into deanships and presidencies. -Sheila Tobias, former associate provost, Connecticut Wesleyan, and author of Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement Finding my first breathing space of the fall quarter, I picked up your October edition of Women in Higher Education and found it to be just what the doctor ordered. Thank you for providing an invaluable publication that supports and reinforces the importance of women leaders and followers. And thank you for giving me a taste of food for the spirit during a busy time of the year. -Dr. Tana Hasert, president, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington The Editors Mary Dee Wenniger is the founder of the international newsletter Women in Higher Education. Mary Helen Conroy directs the Career Connection section of the Women in Higher Education newsletter.