January 23, 2007
Beginning in mid-January, articles appeared nationwide on a Simmons
School of Management study which showed professional women are leading the way to a new career model for
women and men, and are not "opting out" of their careers because of motherhood. Among the publications
featuring the study results were the Chicago Tribune,
The Australian, Wall Street
Journal online, The Boston Globe,
The Boston Business Journal,
salon.com, Central Valley Business
Times (California), Earthtimes.org,
New England Cable News, WCVB-TV
Channel 5, WBZ-TV Channel 4, and
WPRI-TV (Providence/New Bedford). Click here to view the
survey results.
The Simmons School of Social Work was featured in a
Boston Globe article on Jan. 23 on the emerging trend of middle-age
professionals switching to social work careers. The story quoted two students from the Simmons School of
Social Work, and the school's Interim Dean Stefan Krug. On Jan. 20,
The Boston Globe also profiled School of Social Work Professor
Hugo Kamya on his unique counseling work with immigrants.
Simmons College of Arts and Sciences Dean Diane Raymond was
interviewed live Dec. 26 on the Lisa Birnbach Show about current
attitudes toward protecting individual rights. The program is a three-hour talk show on national women's
radio network Greenstone Media, founded last year by Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda.
Associate Professor of
International
Relations Zach Abuza was interviewed by several leading news
agencies in recent weeks. He was quoted in a Dec. 22 Associated
Press article about the increase in Thai Muslim insurgents, and was interviewed in a Jan. 2
Inter Press Service News Agency story about a series of bomb
explosions in Bankok and which group could have been responsible. The Jan. 5 issue of
U.S.News & World Report article quoted Abuza's writings on
terrorism in Southeast Asia and Islamic insurgencies in Thailand.
Junior Darcel Hunt was among six people featured in a New Year's Day
Boston Globe article about the increase in volunteerism in the U.S.,
"whose efforts help make Boston a better place." The story described Hunt's tutoring work with students at
the Farragut Elementary School, and highlighted Simmons being named to the President's Higher Education
Community Service Honor Roll Program.
Africana Studies Professor
Elizabeth Amelia Hadley was featured in a live in-studio interview
with cable television's CN8 Live! with Barry Nolan on Jan. 15.
Professor Hadley discussed the gains made by African-American actors this past year.
Leanne Doherty, assistant professor of
political science and
international relations, was quoted in a Jan. 3 New Orleans
Times-Picayune article (also picked up by the national Newhouse News
Service) about the 2008 presidential race.
Simmons School of Social Work Lecturer
Andrea Eliot was quoted in a January
New England Psychologist article about Student Bodies, an online
tool for young women at risk for eating disorders.
Career Education Career Counselor
Meri Cayem was interviewed in a Dec. 17
Sunday Boston Globe article about parents who are too involved in
their children's job hunting activities.
Simmons School of Management Professor
Susan Sampson was quoted in a
Dec. 22 Boston Globe article about retailers' final sales blitz to
attract last-minute holiday shoppers.
Children's Literature program Lecturer Anita Silvey also appeared
in the "Shelf Life" column of the Dec. 31 Boston Globe. Her
recommendation of the children's book Black Duck was selected as the column's "pick of the week."
Simmons School of Health Sciences Dean
Gerald Koocher was quoted in a Dec. 16
Boston Herald article in response to a reading event for
schoolchildren that marketed the new Charlotte's Web movie. Koocher
said that children are uncritical consumers who can be manipulated by such tactics.
