Program on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW)

For over four decades, PSEW has provided support to women faculty, administrators, and students in higher education through its programs and publications. PSEW's current priorities include improving curricula and campus climates, promoting women's leadership, and disseminating new research on women and gender. Many PSEW networks, publications, and resources are available to anyone interested in the status of women in higher education, regardless of AAC&U membership status.

To learn more about PSEW's history and AAC&U's work for gender equity in higher education, see the articles by Carol Geary Schneider and Caryn McTighe Musil in the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 issue of On Campus with Women, and visit the special fortieth anniversary issue of the publication.

PSEW Networks:

• Networking Breakfast for Women Faculty and Administrators at AAC&U's Annual Meeting
• Campus Women Lead, a grassroots network dedicated to improving campus climates and the status of women in higher education
  
• A moderated listserv maintained in conjunction with Campus Women Lead

PSEW Publications:

• On Campus with Women, a free online newsletter
• A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education (2008), a monograph on women's current status in the academy
  
• A series of papers on Women of Color in the Academy
• A series of papers on the Chilly Climate for Women (free download):
  • The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women? (1982)
  • Academic Mentoring for Women Students and Faculty: A New Look at an Old Way to Get Ahead (1983)
  • Selected Activities Using "The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?" (1984)
  • Out of the Classroom: A Chilly Campus Climate for Women? (1984)
  • Rx for Success: Improving the Climate for Women in Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals (1990)
  • Teaching Faculty Members to Be Better Teachers (1992)
  • Success and Survival Strategies for Women Faculty Members (1992)

PSEW Resources:

• Women's Leadership Project for Inclusive Excellence workshops, organized by Campus Women Lead
  
• Women and Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets (completed 1999), a curriculum and faculty development project supported by the National Science Foundation

Project Staff:

Caryn McTighe Musil, Project Director
musil@aacu.org

Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Editor, On Campus with Women
campbell@aacu.org