Presidential details
When Ruth J. Simmons was sworn in as Brown University's 18th president, she became the first black woman to lead an Ivy League college. Simmons leaves Smith College in Northampton, Mass., where she began the first engineering program at a women's college.

Brown University
Information on the inauguration of Ruth Simmons, plus new releases from the college, background on the search for a new president, and related links.
• "Making History: A conversation with the eighteenth president," from Brown Alumni Magazine
• Brown Daily Herald: Letter from Ruth Simmons to the Smith community, published in Brown's student newspaper, plus related coverage of Simmons's announcement

Smith College
Biography, from Ruth Simmons' tenure as president of Smith College

NASA Quest
Archive of online chat with Ruth Simmons / 2.6.1998

From the Journal:
• Unfinished business: Civil Rights veterans see decades of progress, but still, a great divide / 2.4.2001
• New Brown president speaks of racism, value of education on 60 Minutes / 03.03.2001
• Life lessons helped shape Brown's new leader / 11.12.2001
• Brown embraces its new president / 11.10.2000

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