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What Women (Presidents) Want

Inside Higher Ed

March 25, 2011

Twenty-three percent of college presidents in the United States are female. A group of four influential female presidents gathered at the National Archives here Thursday evening and argued that this percentage should be much higher, so as to mirror the majority female student population in higher education.

The presidents -- H. Kim Bottomly of Wellesley College, Catharine Bond Hill of Vassar College, S. Georgia Nugent of Kenyon College and Teresa A. Sullivan of the University of Virginia -- spoke on a panel about "the changing roles of women in academic leadership" for the Archives' 4th Annual Forum on Women in Leadership. All concurred with the notion that the percentage of female presidents should match the percentage of female students in higher education.

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