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For Immediate Release Former TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein to Conduct Reading of Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic   at R. Barbara Gitenstein Library New York, NY (November 21, 2022) – R. Barbara (Bobby) Gitenstein announced she will conduct...

Love Beyond BoundariesOn October 29, 2022, my sister’s husband of 40 years, Sami, died after a long and painful struggle with cancer. I was so moved by Sami’s perseverance in the face of the bureaucracy that is the current medical profession and in awe of the bravery...

Over the last several weeks, I have felt the heft of history everywhere—in the news, in plays, and in television series. The first outpouring of shock at a 96-year-old monarch’s death and the heartfelt appreciation for a life of service resonated with me. I was...

For immediate release Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academicby R. Barbara Gitenstein launched last weekBefore a private gathering of leaders from various domains of leadership, Barbara Gitenstein shared lessons from her career trajectory on building...

In “The Silent Treatment:  Why College Presidents Don’t Speak Out” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26, 2022), Eric Kelderman bases much of his analysis on a recent survey of college presidents.  The article reads as an objective observation of the facts...

I have been struggling recently in how to process the cataract of bad news and retain equanimity—reactionary SCOTUS decisions (reversing a half century of promise for women’s autonomy, inexplicable overturning of reasonable state decisions to protect the public from...

This week’s news was permeated by unspeakable terror—in Buffalo, New York; Mariupol, Ukraine; Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The implacable drumbeat of all this violence leaves us almost inured to the horror. The repetition, the numbers, threaten to make us forget the...

As I watched the memorial service for Madeleine Albright, I was reminded of how often women embed messages in how they dress. Ms. Albright, of course, was well known for her pins—snails to criticize the slow deliberations of congress, snakes to jab Sadam Hussein about...

Memory’s Needle     “Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table...

Seriously, what does that mean—having it all? To me it is a particularly galling question because it is almost always asked of women, not men. I was struck this past week by the powerful presence of Ketanji Brown Jackson, testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary...