February 27, 2007
President
Susan Scrimshaw was quoted in the Feb. 23 issue of the Chronicle
of Higher Education about Harvard's first woman president. She said that the historic appointment of
Drew Gilpin Faust was "the last really big glass ceiling in higher education." Scrimshaw also was quoted in a
Reuters wire service story on the same topic.
A large story on the Simmons School of Management's recent survey
about women's use of flexible work arrangements appeared in the February issue of
Boston Women's Business. The article, titled "Optioning In,"
featured photos of the three authors, School of Management Professors Mary Shapiro,
Cynthia
Ingols, and Stacy Blake-Beard. As a result of
that article, New England Cable News interviewed
Boston Women's Business editor Vicki Donlan Feb. 8 about the School
of Management survey.
Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Professor
Candy
Schwartz was interviewed Jan. 28 on the public radio program
Commonwealth Journal to discuss "Libraries and the Digital
Revolution." Commonwealth Journal is an award-winning program produced by
WUMB Public Radio network and carried by nearly two dozen radio
stations around Massachusetts.
The Simmons College Trustman Gallery's "Transparent Couture
and Other Pleasures" by Cynthia Atwood was highlighted in the Feb. 6
Boston Globe's Sidekick section. The mention included a reprint of a
work from the exhibit. On Feb. 15, the Boston Globe reviewed the
exhibit in its arts & reviews section.
On Feb. 1,
Communications
Lecturer Dan Connell was interviewed live on Jamaica radio's
Hot 104 program The World
Today, on the topic of Somalia. Connell also was interviewed the following week for Mshale, a
Minneapolis weekly newspaper targeted at the city's African community. The article focused on Eritrea and its
role in Somalia and the surrounding region.
The Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change film event "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?" was included in
the Feb. 12 Boston Globe Sidekick section. The documentary's
creator, Simmons alumna Claire Andrade-Watkins, was referenced
