This issue of On Campus with Women explores the administrator pipeline for women. Sitting in administrative positions provides one more way in which women can and have continued to advocate for increased gender, racial, and ethnic equity and representation. As with gender equity in the faculty, we’ve seen progress in the administrator pipeline and with women holding mid- and high-level administrative positions. However, significant work remains to be done, both in terms of hiring, promoting, and mentoring women to assume these positions and in terms of necessary research.

For instance, Vernese Edgehill, in her feature article, draws our attention to
the limited research examining race, gender, and specific job function and
location, particularly for women of color. In identifying new directions for research in this area, she connects her call for more comprehensive and disaggregated data with the development of new institutional policies for achieving gender equity.

Likewise Virginia Coombs, in her From Where I Sit article, describes her journey through the academic ranks to her current position as provost. She reflects on her experiences as well as on her vision for her new role, sharing strategies and successes she’s developed along the way.

This issue raises new questions and topics for research, while also sharing strategies for practitioners on campus. In addition, we hope to demonstrate
that there are multiple pathways to becoming an administrator, as is evident from both Coombs’ and Sue Rosser’s articles. While challenges remain,
more and more women are pursuing and succeeding in administrator positions

Campus Women Lead

Sue Rosser, Dean of the Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has spent most of her career writing about, and advocating for women in science and gender equity more broadly. In her Campus Women Lead (CWL) column, Rosser recounts her journey to the deanship as well as different ways in which she has leveraged her different positions to advocate
for increased gender equity and representation.