Ruth Simmons
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1945 –
Who is Ruth Simmons?
Ruth Simmons was the 18th president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president. According to a March 2009 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons had more than an 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates.
On September 15, 2011, President Simmons announced that she planned to step down from the Brown presidency at the end of the academic year, June 30, 2012. After a short leave, she plans to continue at Brown as Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies.
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- Born
- Jul 3, 1945
Grapeland - Also known as
- Ruth J Simmons
- Spouses
- Religion
- Christianity
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Dillard University
- Employment
- Brown University
- Princeton University
- Lived in
- Texas
- Providence
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on July 23, 2013
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