 | Ruth Simmons |
Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University in Rhode Island, will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 9, as the final Chubb Fellow of the 2002-2003 academic year.
She will deliver a lecture at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 120 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. A reception co-sponsored by the Afro-American Cultural Center will be held in the Sterling Memorial Library Memorabilia Room following the lecture.
Simmons' visit is part of the University's celebration of the 150th birthday of Edward A. Bouchet, the first African-American student to graduate from Yale College (Class of 1874) and the first in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. degree when he received his doctorate in physics from Yale in 1876.
In 2001, Simmons became the first African American to head an Ivy League School when she was appointed as president of Brown University. Previously, she had served as associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California; associate dean of the faculty and, later, vice provost at Princeton University; provost of Spelman College; and president of Smith College. At Brown, she also holds appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature and African Studies.
"I am what teachers and education made of me," Simmons noted in her inaugural address at Smith on September 30, 1995. "When I was a child searching for knowledge, the academy pulled me into its orbit because it held up values toward which I could aspire. ... Education is, at its heart, just one formula: teachers plus students equal learning."
Simmons, a graduate of Dillard and Harvard universities, counts among her many honors the German DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - German Academic Exchange Service), a Fulbright Fellowship to France, the Centennial Medal from Harvard, the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service from Columbia University and the President's Award from the United Negro College Fund. She holds honorary degrees from several institutions and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. She also sits on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation, Pfizer Inc., Texas Instruments and the Goldman Sachs Group.
The Chubb Fellowship is devoted to encouraging and aiding Yale students interested in the operations of government, culture and public service. Established in 1936 through the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program is based in Timothy Dwight College. Each year three or four distinguished men and women have been appointed as Visiting Chubb Fellows. Chubb Fellows spend their time at Yale in close, informal contact with students and deliver a public lecture. Former Chubb Fellows have included Presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter; authors Octavio Paz and Toni Morrison; former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman; and journalist Walter Cronkite.
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