September 17, 2007
President Susan Scrimshaw is featured in a Sept. 2 Boston Sunday Globe story about Simmons's rankings in U.S.News & World Report, Princeton Review's Best Colleges guide, and the Kaplan guidebook, in which she references the accolades as "Simmons hits a triple." Senior Carolyn Swanhall, a freshman orientation leader, also was interviewed. Other articles announcing the rankings include electronic coverage in the Statehouse News Service, LATimes.com, bizjournals.com, Boston Business Journal.com, Arizona Republic.com, AOLMoney news.com, and Forbes.com. Additionally, Scrimshaw was one of hundreds of American, British, and Israeli college presidents listed in a full-page ad in the Aug. 8 New York Times, responding against a recent vote by Britain's new University and College Union to advance a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. The ad was spearheaded by Columbia University and provided as a public service by the American Jewish Committee.
Simmons School of Management Professor Deborah Kolb was quoted in an Aug. 28 Wall Street Journal story on advice for young women on developing a leadership style. Kolb said it's important for young female managers to get support from their superiors. Jennifer Murtie, a 2007 graduate of the Simmons School of Management, is referenced throughout the piece. Kolb also appeared in an Aug. 27 North Jersey Herald News article titled "Women Make Less Because They Don't Ask for More."
Zach Abuza, chair of the department of political science and international relations, was featured in an Aug. 20 Newsweek story titled "How to beat terror," which describes new, successful tactics used in Southeast Asia's war on terror. In Newsweek's international edition on that same day, Abuza was interviewed in an article about the increase in fundamentalist violence in Thailand. He also was quoted in the Aug. 19 International Herald Tribune about the threat of Abu Sayyaf insurgents on the Philippine island of Basilan.
The Aug. 17 issue of Boston Business Journal included a segment titled "CEO University," a focus on chief executives who received their MBAs from area schools. Simmons School of Management graduate Suzanne Weber, a member of the class of 1982 and CEO of Development Guild/DDI - a consulting firm for non-profits - was highlighted, and Simmons was ranked #14 in a list of 18 of the "Largest CEO-Producing Universities."
The July 8 edition of The Taipei Times included a feature story on Alumnae Professor of English Afaa Michael Weaver, who taught at Fu Jen University in Taiwan this summer. The article quotes Ed Ochester, editor of the University of Pittsburg Press Poetry Series, who called Weaver "the African American successor to Walt Whitman," and promotes Weaver's 10th book, The Plum Flower Dance. Weaver also was the subject of a feature story in the August issue of Spare Change News (Cambridge, Mass.), a street newspaper to benefit the homeless.
Simmons School of Management Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship Margaret Heffernan was interviewed in the September issue of More magazine in a Q&A-formatted section titled "The Conversation." The article posed questions to Heffernan and Carol Bartz, a software company executive, to find out which way to the top is better and faster for women.
The historical novel The Inquest, written by Jeffrey Marshall, a 1988 graduate of the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, was reviewed in an Aug. 12 Associated Press article.
Simmons School of Management Professors Mary Shapiro, Cynthia Ingols, and Stacy Blake-Beard co-published a letter to the editor in the July/August Harvard Business Review, in response to an article about working mothers that the publication had run earlier in the year. The professors wrote about the importance of negotiating flexible work arrangements and referenced a 2006 Simmons study on the topic.
Simmons College is mentioned in an Aug. 9 Boston Globe about the New England Center for Children, a regional education center for children with autism. The article states that the center offers degrees through Simmons, and quoted the center's director of administration Judy Cunnif Serio, who graduated from the Simmons School of Management in 1991.
Simmons School of Management Professor Deborah Kolb was quoted in the Sept. 1 issue of Newsday (N.Y.) in an article about the new TV series Mad Men, which depicts a Madison Ave. ad agency in the '60s. Kolb said that the women in the series are represented realistically as having power only within their peer group.
