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Ivy League to Become Collegiate Outlier in Top Women Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For Dartmouth and Columbia, these are the first women presidents in their history, while Harvard welcomes its first African American president. Robert McCaughey, retired professor of history and Janet H. He said Columbia seriously considered female candidates prior to the hiring of outgoing President Lee Bollinger in 2002.

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Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

SRHE

It was academically-focused, naturally, on education, so there was a common intellectual thread, but, given the nature of education as an area of study, this meant that a range of disciplines – philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, history, and more – were in the mix, producing a stimulating creative setting.