Monday, November 27, 2000
African American to lead Brown U.
Ruth Simmons, who was this month named the new president of Brown University, made history as she became the first African American to be chosen to lead an Ivy League institution.
Simmons, 54, who has been president of all-female Smith College in Northampton, Mass., since 1995, will succeed E. Gordon Gee, now chancellor of Vanderbilt University. She is credited with increasing Smith College’s student diversity and establishing the first engineering program at a women’s college. Simmons has also been provost at Spelman College and associate dean of faculty and acting director of African-American studies at Princeton University. Simmons graduated summa cum laude from Dillard University in 1967 and went on to receive her master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

North Carolina voters approve $3.1 billion higher education bond
On Nov. 7, North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved a bond measure that will give the state’s public universities and community colleges $3.1 billion for improvements. It is the largest bond measure for higher education to be passed in United States history.
The 16-campus University of North Carolina system will receive $2.5 billion, while the state’s 59 community colleges will get $600 million. Although there was no organized opposition to the bond measure, bond supporters spent an estimated $3 million for television and radio advertising. State officials say that the measure should not have a major impact on the state budget.

--Sharon Coar
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