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Cooper, Kenneth J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Ruth Simmons made a big news splash a decade ago when she was named president of Brown University, making her the first Black president of an Ivy League institution. She made another splash three years later by naming a committee to investigate Brown's role in the slave trade and make recommendations on possible reparations. Reflecting on her…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Recognition (Achievement), College Administration, Governance
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Cooper, Kenneth J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
As the new vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971, Dr. Randolph W. Bromery had not given any thought to moving up to chancellor. But the president of the UMass system, Dr. Robert C. Wood, had contemplated the possibility. Then he made it happen. Indisputably, Wood's gamble worked out. For eight…
Descriptors: College Presidents, African American Leadership, Promotion (Occupational), Tenure