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The Battalion
Wednesday, March 30,
Women administrators hope to inspire othe
Education dean
wants to place
more women in
leadership roles
By Renee Blackmon
Special to The Battalion
Jane Stallings holds an uncom
mon position at Texas A&M Univer
sity for a woman.
As dean of the College of Educa
tion, Stallings is the only female
dean at the University.
Stallings came to Texas A&M in
1990 after serving as a department
head at the University of Houston.
With her came a love of teaching
and a desire to place more women
in leadership roles.
“College and department commit
tees must now include women, eth
nic minorities and representation
from more than one department,”
she said. “Diversity is essential to the
development of professional educa
tors serving the citizens of Texas.”
Stallings credited the increase in
the number of women and minorities
hired at Texas A&M to the system for
creating equity in committees. She
said candidates who promise diverse
perspectives on education are also
pursued by die University.
“In examining the small amount
of female tenured track faculty I
have concluded there has been no
conspiracy to keep minorities and
women from being hired or placed
in leadership positions, but rather a
tendency for selection committee
members to choose individuals sim-
Female engineers increasing, adviser sm
By Renee Blackmon
Special to The Battalion
Karan Watson is a pleasant surprise to most of the fe
male students in die College of Engineering. Watson,
assistant dean of the college, advises many engineering
students, including the 463 women in the college.
Watson came to Texas A&M in 1983. Throughout
her career, Watson has seen rapid growth of the number
of women who are receiving engineering degrees.
“In 1972 the graduation rate of women with a
bachelor’s degree was about 1 percent to 2 percent
nationwide,” she said. "Since then it has been in
creasing rapidly and now is about 1 8 percent.”
Watson said the enrollment of freshmen women in
engineering at Texas A&M is 22 percent, which is
above the national average.
Watson credits the success of increased enroll
ment to the quality of the programs that are offered
at A&M.
The University has to manage the enrollment be
cause the amount of students can exceed resources,
she said.
“Some universities are trying to increase their en
rollment of engineering students,” Watson said.
Texas A&M, we have to keep some of them out."
One of the areas Watson finds exciting about
neering is teaching and being able to help others
their research programs.
“Teaching is a fun way to take new informal;:
especially innovative techniques, and present it to>
dents so they can be excited about what the
learning,” she said. “With so few women intheCi
lege of Engineering, this allows me to be a rolem*
even if I don’t intend to be.”
Watson said women engineers tend to intern:
failures which can make them feel isolated.
“Women don’t get the opportunity to networl
talk about engineering or feel that they are unders:
when they do,” she said. “1 have been abletoprt
them with links like graduate students who share
challenges."
Watson said the number of women in leader
positions is growing at A&M and nationwide.
“Seven or eight years ago there were virtual!
women in high leadership positions, hut today t
are more," she said. "We are not in proportio
what we want to be, but it is changing.”
ilar to themselves,” she said. “Given
that university leadership is predom
inantly Anglo and male, it is not sur
prising that committee composition
reflected this leadership.”
Stallings said appointing women
and minorities to leadership posi
tions is important to changing the
social climate among female leaders
at the University. “Seeking diversity
among faculty and students is more
than a slogan now,” she said. “It
has become an action item with
proper recognition for results.”
Stallings said many women in
leadership positions feel isolated.
Most faculty members hold the
deanship in some mixture of awe
and fear which adds to the distance
of relationships, Stallings said.
"There are many intervening
forces which contribute to the diffi
culty in developing sustaining
friendships from the dean's office,
she said. “It may be more difficult
for women because of an unstated
sexual social barrier which doesn't
allow even professional relationships
between men and women peers to
go unnoticed.”
Stallings said good leaders can vi
sualize where they are going and are
good listeners.
“My vision is being the crest of
the wave
ing,” she saic
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all faculty members.
“I have come to understa;:|
channels which flow betwe
dean’s office, department hea:
faculty are subject to twists,!
and misinterpretation,” she:
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tion is needed between the ;i\\ , , .
and myself to combat runv
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said.
The baby was believed to have
been born around 2 a.m. in the
girl’s room.
The woman denied having the
baby when she was brought into the
A.P. Beutel Health Center and contin
ued to claim she was sick, Wiatt said.
Doctors at the health center and
later St. Joseph’s Hospital confirmed
the woman had just given birth.
UPD found the baby at approxi
mately 4 a.m. in a garbage chute on
the second floor, one floor below
where the woman’s room was locat
ed, along with bloody towels from
the room.
Dr. Wade Birch, director of Stu
dent Counseling Services, said he
does not knew the specifics of the
case, but said the woman may have
acted out of cortfusion.
“Being in a situation like that can
test where your support system is,"
he said. “Someone may be asking
who their friends are, what it will do
to their plans and what the young
wonian’s relationship to the man was.
“I’m sure all during this period,
it’s got to have generated all these
questions,” he said.
Wiatt said UPD is also investigat
ing the possibility that the woman
was suffering from shock after the
birth.
Birch said such a situal
might have caused the wohueI
behave lrra<ionally. jb m i„ued
In a traumatic situation, hurl
beings can do a number of tliF mo !l t p
that under normal situations!- nie 1 c:
wouldn’t do." * J§ nevv ,
Charney Putney, assistant dire;: :w ^ v '_ n
of Residence Life, said thecouii:^ 6 ^
ing center has been notified, atjaF own rn
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