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...CLIFFORD-SMITH GALLERY...
Recent work by Rachel Perry Welty is on display at the Clifford-Smith Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave., Boston, through Nov. 25. For more information, call...
Until recently, three Ivy League universities were searching for new presidents. Now there are only two. Last week, Brown University made a superb choice when it picked Ruth J. Simmons, a Harvard alum and current president of Smith College, to head the institution...
Simmons, the first black and second woman to lead an Ivy League school, is highly regarded by both her peers and students at Smith College. Described by one student as the "most respected person on campus," she has been a tireless advocate for diversity in higher education. Simmons also has the reputation for being accessible to undergraduates, a quality far too rare among high-level administrators. She should prove a better fit for Brown University than E. Gordon Gee, its most recent president, who shocked the campus community by resigning after only two years at the post...
...attend college on a scholarship. She has accomplished that and so much more. After attending Dillard University in New Orleans, she came to Harvard for her master's and doctorate degrees in Romance languages and literatures. She served as vice provost of Princeton before assuming the presidency of Smith in 1995. When she takes office as Brown's president in July 2001, she will break down a color barrier that has stood for far too long within the Ivy League...