Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth Simmonswas the 18th president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president. According to a March 2009 poll by The...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.