Ruth Simmons, former administrator, named president of Brown U. Ruth Simmons, a former Princeton administrator, has been named president of Brown University. Simmons, who has been president of Smith College since 1995, will be the first African American to lead an Ivy League institution when she takes up her new duties on July 1, 2001. Simmons came to Princeton in 1983 as director of studies at Butler College, one of the newly established undergraduate residential colleges. She became acting director of the Afro-American Studies Program in 1985 and assistant dean of the faculty in 1986. She was promoted to associate dean in 1987. She left Princeton to become provost of Spelman College in 1990, but returned to the University in 1992 as vice provost, the position she held until becoming president of Smith. Simmons' accomplishments at Princeton included preparing the 1993 Report on Campus Race Relations. which resulted in such initiatives as the appointment of an ombuds officer, the establishment of a Race Relations Working Group and an effort to better coordinate race relations activities. Simmons, who received an honorary degree from Princeton in 1996, returned to the campus just last month to participate in a panel discussion of university presidents on "Challenges to Higher Education in the New Century." She is one of five members of the provost's office since the early 1970s to have gone on to presidencies. The others are: Sheldon Hackney to Tulane, then Penn; Neil Rudenstine to Harvard; Janet Holmgren to Mills; and Hugo Sonnenschein to Chicago.		November 20, 2000 Vol. 90, No. 10 previous   archives   next Contents • Center is one-stop shop for teaching technology • Ostriker selected for prestigious National Medal of Science award • Search committee proceeds in outreach phase • Gift of time proves valuable • Program works to resolve conflicts • Ombuds Office seeks volunteer mediators • Ruth Simmons, former administrator, named president of Brown U. • Historic photos provide fertile ground for improvement of open spaces • Sculptor hopes work stimulates dialogue • Muldoon pens poems for Oscar Wilde memorial • Showalter defines 'instant classics' • Nassau notes • Spotlight / People • Calendar of events The Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, except during University breaks and exam weeks, by the Office of Communications, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Permission is given to adapt, reprint or excerpt material from the Bulletin for use in other media. Deadline. In general, the copy deadline for each issue is the Friday 10 days in advance of the Monday cover date. The deadline for the Bulletin that covers Dec. 4-10 is Wednesday, Nov. 22. A complete publication schedule is available at deadlines or by calling (609) 258-3601. Subscriptions. The Bulletin is distributed free to faculty, staff and students. Others may subscribe to the Bulletin for $24 for the academic year (half price for current Princeton parents and people over 65). Send a check to Office of Communications, Stanhope Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Editor: Ruth Stevens Staff writer: Yvonne Chiu Hays Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller Contributing writers: Karin Dienst, Marilyn Marks, Steven Schultz Photographer: Denise Applewhite Design: Mahlon Lovett, Laurel Masten Cantor Web edition: Mahlon Lovett
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