For Black History Month, periodically I will be spotlighting individuals who were the 3rd to be something or do something. I am choosing the 3rd* because when individuals are spotlighted, it is often the 1st or 2nd person to do something, not the 3rd, so I hope to learn about people I don't know as much about. *In general, there will be a few exceptions to the "3rd rule."
Today I am highlighting the first and only three black presidents of Ivy League schools. You will see it took until the 2000's for there to be any at all.
2001: President Ruth J. Simmons became the first African American to lead an Ivy League institution.
2022: Interim Penn President Wendell Pritchett was the first black president of University of Pennsylvania
Today I am highlighting the first and only three black presidents of Ivy League schools. You will see it took until the 2000's for there to be any at all.
2001: President Ruth J. Simmons became the first African American to lead an Ivy League institution.
2023: President Claudine Gay, a scholar of politics, gender and race, officially became the first Black woman to lead Harvard University
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