List of Figures and Tables xList of Contributors xiiIntroduction 1Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower and Nancy S. NiemiPart I The Higher Education Corporation and Its Gender Implications 51 Unpacking the "Female Advantage" in the Career and Economic Impacts of College 7Tiffani M. Williams and Gregory C. Wolniak2 Women's Leadership in Higher Education: Addressing Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors 29Jolyn E. Dahlvig and Karen A. Longman3 Gender, Digital Literacies, and Higher Education: Examinations of Equity 53Corrine M. Wickens and Tracy Miller4 Gender, Neoliberalism, and Corporatized Higher Education 69Penny Jane Burke5 Governing Boards and Their Relationship to Gender Issues in Higher Education 91Paul G. Rubin, Erin B. Ciarimboli, and Lindsay B. Coco6 Gender Inequality and the New Faculty Majority 105Adrianna Kezar and Arely L. AcunaPart II Student Learning and Life in Global Contexts 1257 Gender and Substance Use in Higher Education 127Scott Radimer and Adam M. McCready8 A Rating Spectrum for Sexual Assault Education and Prevention at 10 Ivy-Plus Institutions 145Ally Garcia, Julie Wienski, Nicole Cote, and Christopher Silva9 This Is Not Your Parents' Greek Life: Trends in the Ongoing Evolution of Fraternities and Sororities 171Alan D. DeSantis10 Trans Students 197Genny Beemyn11 International First-Generation Students: Current Issues and Trends in the Research 215Michael J. Siegel12 Women and the American Community College 231Racheal L. Stimpson13 "Non-Traditional" Learners and Twenty-First-Century Higher Education: The Ongoing Project of Inclusion 251Susan B. Marine14 Gender Inequities in Collegiate Sport: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice 265Emily A. Johnson and Ajhanai Chanel Inez NewtonPart III Curriculum, Services, Educators, and the Chalkface 28915 Global Participation in Undergraduate Computing: A Review and Agenda for Research 291Kathleen J. Lehman, Kaitlin N. S. Newhouse, and Linda J. Sax16 Institutions of Higher Education as Gendered Workplaces 315Nancy S. Niemi17 Town Halls, Campaigns, and Safe Spaces: How Campus Responses to Violence Further Marginalize Vulnerable Populations 333Emily A. Johnson, Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Aaron Voyles, and Alma J. Salcedo18 Gender Centers in Higher Education: Spaces for Cultivating Critical Hope 359Matthew Jeffries and Ashley S. Boyd19 Gendered Divisions of Labor in the Twenty-First-Century Academy: Research, Teaching, and Service 375Shelley M. Park and Dakota Park-Ozee20 Work-Life Integration for University Faculty: Overcoming Immunities to Change 397Maike Ingrid Philipsen21 Single-Sex and Coeducational Higher Education in International Contexts 411Kristen A. Renn22 How High the Ceiling: Gender and Leadership in International Higher Education 429Sora H. Friedman23 Study Abroad Programs and Their Intersection with Gender 451Noreen Siddiqui and Jody Jessup-AngerPart IV Theoretical Paradigms, Methodologies, and Their Impact on the Study of Gender and Global Higher Education 46924 Critical Theories and Methods in Gender and Higher Education 471Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower25 The Epistemological Significance of Transgender Studies in the Academy 493Wayne Martino, Diana Kuhl, and Kenan Omercajic26 Researching Gender and Higher Education 515Laura Parson27 Transfeminist Methodology: Examining Cissexism in Higher Education and Student Affairs Research 531T.J. JourianIndex 551
NANCY S. NIEMI was the inaugural Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives in the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University, and is currently the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Niemi's commitment to educational and social equity is evidenced in her work with universities across the country and in her research and publications throughout her career. Her experience in education includes positions as Professor and Chair of the Education Department at the University of New Haven as well as an elected school board member and as a middle school English teacher. Niemi's continuing professional inquiry centers on the intersections of gender, social equity, and higher education.MARCUS B. WEAVER-HIGHTOWER is professor of Foundations of Education at Virginia Tech, and previously professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. His research focuses on boys and masculinity in schools, food politics, the politics and sociology of education and policy, comics and graphic novels, and qualitative methods. He the author of How to Write Qualitative Research, The Politics of Policy in Boys' Education: Getting Boys "Right" and other articles and collections.