{"id":7569,"date":"2021-03-26T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:11:42","slug":"it-all-started-at-earlham-alum-recognized-as-one-of-nations-top-25-women-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/it-all-started-at-earlham-alum-recognized-as-one-of-nations-top-25-women-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It all started at Earlham!\u2019 Alum recognized as one of nation\u2019s Top 25 women in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Karlyn Crowley\u2019s career in higher education has been marked by a series of firsts that were inspired by her Earlham education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Crowley graduated in 1990, she became one of the first Earlhamites to earn a bachelor degree in women\u2019s studies, a program now called women\u2019s, gender and sexuality studies. Later in graduate school, Crowley would enroll in the University of Virginia\u2019s inaugural cohort of the women\u2019s studies certificate program. And when she started her career as a professor of English and women\u2019s and gender studies at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, she launched the institution\u2019s first women\u2019s studies minor and founded the Cassandra Voss Center, a pioneering academic center devoted to intersectional identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe first of firsts started at Earlham,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now the provost at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, Crowley has been named to a national list of the top 25 women working in higher education, an honor that recognizes her commitment to equity work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n