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International Women’s Day event showcases women in leadership

By EDDIE TRIZZINO

Times West Virginian

Team members of the Fairmont State University volleyball team paid tribute to Olympic beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings in the school’s International Women’s Day event Thursday.
(Times West Virginian photo by Eddie Trizzino)

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Over the past few years, leadership roles at Fairmont State University have been filled more frequently by women.

As Andrea Pammer, director of counseling and disability services at the university, pointed out, roles which were previously filled by men have been occupied by women who have risen to ranks not possible just a few decades ago.

“Over the last at least six, seven or eight years or so we’ve had more and more women in leadership positions,” Pammer said. “This is our second women president in a row. Our provost is a woman, many of the leadership roles are filled with women, which is not typical.”

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