The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago,Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866,which grew into the museum and school,SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the Higher Learning Commission and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944. It has been a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) since the association's founding in 1991 and is also accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.
Helen Elizabeth Garrett,commonly known as Elizabeth Garrett or Beth Garrett,was an American professor of law and academic administrator. On July 1,2015,she became the 13th president of Cornell University—the first woman to serve as president of the university. She died from colon cancer on March 6,2016,the first Cornell president to die while in office.
The School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is a school of Tufts University,a private research university in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts. It is the largest of the eight schools and colleges that comprise the university. Together with the School of Engineering,it offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts,sciences,and engineering. The two schools occupy the university's main campus in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts and share many administrative functions including undergraduate admissions,student affairs,library,and information technology services. The two schools form the Faculty of Arts,Sciences,and Engineering (AS&E),a deliberative body under the chairmanship of the president of the university. Currently,the School of Arts and Sciences employs approximately 540 faculty members. There are over 4,300 full-time undergraduates and 1700 graduate and professional students.
Eileen Strempel is an operatic soprano,author,higher education policy expert,and academic from Syracuse,New York,who is currently the inaugural dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Strempel’s scholarly work advocates for college transfer students—and both access to and support for higher education—and the works of historically underrepresented composers.
Barbara DeGenevieve (1947–2014) was an American interdisciplinary artist who worked in photography,video,and performance. She lectured on her work and on subjects including human sexuality,gender,transsexuality,censorship,ethics,and pornography. Her writing on these subjects have been published in art,photographic,and scholarly journals. She died of cervical cancer on August 9,2014.
Nelson American Indian College is a private Christian college in Phoenix,Arizona. It was originally founded in 1957 by missionary Alta Washburn who saw the great need to prepare Native Americans for church ministry. Nelson AIC educates students from about 25 tribes but welcomes students of all ethnicities. It is a regional Assemblies of God college. Until late 2015 the college was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools but is now an approved campus of Nelson University and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the provost of Harvard University. He is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law. From 2017 to 2024,he was the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School.
Jean F. MacCormack is the past president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate,serving in the role from 2014 to 2017. MacCormack is the former Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,where she led from 1999 to 2012.
Jacqueline Taylor was the provost and vice president for academic affairs at The College of New Jersey from 2013-2018.
Waded Cruzado is a Puerto Rican professor of Spanish language and Spanish literature. She served as Interim President of New Mexico State University from 2008 to 2009,and since 2010 has served as the 12th President of Montana State University in Bozeman,Montana.
Cheryl L. Hyman is the vice provost for academic alliances at Arizona State University and former Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. During her tenure at City Colleges of Chicago,she launched the Reinvention of City Colleges program in 2010,and the City Colleges' College to Careers program in 2011. She is also the author of Reinvention:The Promise and Challenge of Transforming a Community College System, and in 2023 was elected to the Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees.
Kim E. Schatzel is an American academic administrator who is the 19th president of the University of Louisville. She joined Eastern Michigan University in January 2012 as provost and executive vice president of academic and student affairs,and became interim president on July 8,2015,following the resignation of Susan Martin. Schatzel was previously dean of the college of business at University of Michigan–Dearborn. On November 30,2022,she was announced as the next president of University of Louisville and began her tenure on February 1,2023.
Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic administrator who is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. Gay's research addresses American political behavior,including voter turnout and politics of race and identity.
Tania Christina Tetlow is an American lawyer and law professor who is president of Fordham University since July 1,2022. Previously,she was president of Loyola University New Orleans. She is the first woman and the first layperson to hold each of those positions at those two Catholic universities.
Chawne Monique Kimber is an African-American mathematician and quilter,known for expressing her political activism in her quilts. She was a professor at Lafayette College,where she headed the department of mathematics. Kimber is now the Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University.
Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney is an American neuroscientist and the 22nd president of Trinity College,Hartford,Connecticut. She is the first African-American and the first woman to serve in the position. Earlier in her career,Berger-Sweeney did proof-of-concept work on galantamine,the second-most used drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Joan Straumanis is an academic administrator,philosopher,second-wave feminist,mathematician,civil libertarian,public speaker,and American pioneer in women's studies. She co-created the first women's studies program outside a public university,and served as president of both Antioch College and the Metropolitan College of New York and as academic dean at other institutions.
Kymberly N. Pinder is an American art historian,curator,and university administrator. She is the current dean of Yale School of Art,and is the first woman of color to hold this position.
Sally Elaine McRorie is an American psychologist and painter. She is the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University and president of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
Robin R. Means Coleman is an American author,communication scholar,and educator known for her work in the fields of Afro-American studies,African studies,and media studies. She has written on the topic of race in horror films,and in particular representations of Black people in horror films,in her 2011 non-fiction book Horror Noire:Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present,as well as in the 2023 book The Black Guy Dies First:Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar,which she co-authored with Mark H. Harris.
