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CBS gives $50,000 to Brandeis to mark alumna's retirement from network

The program has been given $50,000 by CBS in honor of the retirement of Esther Kartiganer ’59, who worked for the network for more than 40 years. For the past 22 years, Kartiganer was a senior editor and then senior producer at the primetime powerhouse 60 Minutes.

Kartiganer, who co-chairs the Women's and Gender Studies Program board, stressed that her decision to direct the money to WGS is aimed at building on the program’s strengths and fostering ties to other academic departments across campus.

“This is a very exciting opportunity for us,” said English Professor Sue Lanser, who chairs the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. She said the money will go toward an endowment for an assistant professorship that is shared with an academic department.

The Women's and Gender Studies Program offers undergraduate and graduate courses integrating the study of women's experiences and gender roles with the University's curriculum in science, social science, humanities and arts. Brandeis offered its first women's studies course in 1975. By 1978, enough courses were available to create a certificate-granting program for undergraduates. A graduate program was added in 1992, and an undergraduate major in 2003. For more information on the program, go to its website at http://www.brandeis.edu/wgs/.

A Brandeis University Fellow, Kartiganer was a founding member of the WGS national board, and has served on the Brandeis Board of Trustees as an alumni member. Her long career at CBS began when she joined the network as an office assistant in 1964, and ended when she retired on Dec. 31, 2005. Her notable projects included a segment on the dangerous and sometimes fatal use of sulfites that led to new FDA regulations, and one of the first network news stories on shaken baby syndrome. She has been the recipient of 13 Emmy awards.