April 7, 2008
The Simmons School of Management's recent study, which shows that
women executives who serve on non-profit boards actively aspire to serve on for-profit boards, has received
significant media coverage. Articles ran on AOL Money News,
Forbes.com,
foxbusiness.com, WTKR.com
(WTKR-TV Norfolk, Va.),
KPLCTV.com (Lake Charles, La.),
Bizjournals.com,
Boston
Business Journal, the Arizona Republic, the
Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles
Times, MiamiTodayNews.com,
SunHerald.com (South Mississippi),
NewJerseyExaminer.com, Earth
Times, Investors.com, NET Developer's Journal, American
Electronics Association website, Python Developer's Journal online, and Enterprise Open Source
magazine.
Alumnae Professor of English
Afaa Michael Weaver was featured in the April 1
Baltimore Examiner.com, discussing his impressions as a teenager during the Baltimore riots of
1968, which erupted after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Weaver, an award-winning poet, grew
up in Baltimore.
Simmons School of
Management Distinguished Scholar Joyce Fletcher was quoted in a
March 30
Boston Sunday Globe article about the trend of women excelling and outperforming males when taking
a new job. Fletcher said that portable skills such as external networking and a focus on customer
relationships are enabling women to succeed in business. The article also ran in the International Herald
Tribune, an English language international newspaper.
The March 11 edition of Forbes.com ran an article on the
Simmons School of Management Leadership
Conference. The conference also was mentioned in the March issue of
CIO magazine, in an article about women's leadership summits.
Simmons Alumna Elinor Lipman published an
op-ed in the March 24 Boston Globe titled "If I Ruled the
Admissions Universe," about the college admissions process.
Simmons School of Management Visiting Professor
Margaret Heffernan was quoted in a March 23
Boston Sunday Globe about ex-couples who are in business together. Heffernan is the author
of How She Does It: How Female Entrepreneurs are Changing the Rules for Business Success."
Simmons School of Social Work instructor Tien Ung was quoted in a
March 27
Boston
Globe about the Massachusetts Department of Social Services' decision to hire more social workers. Ung is
a former DSS social worker.
English Professor
David Gullette was mentioned in a March 19
Boston Globe review of the "The Tempest." Gullette, an actor in the Actors' Shakespeare Project's
production, was cast as Alonso, a character the review described as having "aristocratic knavery."
Simmons Alumna Ann Fudge was featured in the March edition of
Unity First magazine about her recent
award from Black Enterprise magazine
for her work as a "corporate trailblazer." Unity First is a
monthly magazine for African Americans in the New England Region.
Trustman Art Gallery Director
Barbara O'Brien was quoted in a March 25
Boston
Phoenix arts events article that mentions the Trustman exhibit "Inside the Outsider World."
The March 24 issue of the
Massachusetts Daily Collegian mentioned Simmons's presence on
the 2007 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Collegian is the daily newspaper of the
University of Massachusetts.
