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Of the 36 members tasked with helping search for the next University president, none are affiliated with the School of Education and Social Policy, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, the Bienen School of Music and the School of Communication. In fact, only two of the nine faculty and students on the committee come from non-STEM backgrounds, and the remaining are current or former Board of Trustees members, alumni leadership or staff. And for some students and faculty, this breakdown is a point of concern. The Presidential Search Committee, announced earlier this month, will help advise the Board on candidate elections and solicit community input and nominations for the next president. While Northwestern community members nominated people to the committee, Board chair J. Landis Martin selected the final group, according to this month’s announcement. ....
One woman recounted her employee telling her women didn’t belong in the news business. Another woman had to field complaints from a subordinate who didn’t want to take orders from a “Black girl.” In her latest book, Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell is sharing the previously untold stories of Black women in the broadcast journalism industry. Greenwell’s book “Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News” exposes the implicit racism and sexism in America’s television networks through interviews with 40 women in the industry. After working on her dissertation in 2011, Greenwell became interested in learning about women she hadn’t seen in television newsrooms and the role they might play behind the camera. She said she knew there were so few women of color in managerial positions, so she wanted to use her journalism skills to turn it into research. ....