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Thomas Joyner is an American radio personality,host,philanthropist and former musician. Joyner is the former host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show,and also founder of Reach Media Inc.,the Tom Joyner Foundation,and BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee is a retired American track and field athlete,ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the heptathlon as well as long jump. She won three gold,one silver,and two bronze Olympic medals in those two events at four different Olympic Games. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time. She served on the board of directors for USA Track &Field (U.S.A.T.F.),the national governing body of the sport.
St. Norbert College (SNC) is a private Norbertine liberal arts college in De Pere,Wisconsin. Founded in October 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings,a Norbertine priest and educator,the school was named after Saint Norbert of Xanten. In 1952,the college became coeducational. As of April 2023,the school's enrollment is 2,009 students.
The University of St. Francis is a private Franciscan university with its main campus in Joliet,Illinois. It enrolls more than 3,200 students at locations throughout the country with about 1,300 students at its main campus.
Douglass Residential College is a non-degree-granting program open to female undergraduate students at any of the degree-granting schools of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. It succeeded the liberal arts degree-granting Douglass College after it was merged with the other undergraduate colleges at Rutgers-New Brunswick in 2007. Originally named the New Jersey College for Women when founded in 1918 as a degree granting college,it was renamed Douglass College in 1955 in honor of its first dean. The program now called Douglass Residential College is no longer a degree granting unit of Rutgers,but is a supplementary program that female undergraduate students attending the Rutgers-New Brunswick undergraduate schools may choose to join.
Carmen Twillie Ambar is an American attorney,academic,and the current president of Oberlin College in Ohio. She was appointed to the post in May 2017.
Arthenia Joyner is an American politician,attorney,and civil rights activist from Florida. She served as a member of the Florida Senate for ten years,representing parts of the Tampa Bay Area from 2006 to 2016. She was the Senate minority leader during her last two years in office. Prior to being elected to the Senate,Joyner served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing an eastern Tampa-based district from 2000 to 2006. Currently,Joyner is Of Counsel with the Swope,Rodante P.A. law firm located in Ybor City,FL.
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Laurie Gagnon Lachance is an American economist and college administrator. Since 2012,she has been the president of Thomas College in Waterville,Maine,and is the first woman to fill that post. She was previously the first woman Maine State Economist and the first woman president of the Maine Development Foundation. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
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Joan Huber is an American sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology at Ohio State University. Huber served as the 79th president of the American Sociological Association in 1989. Huber taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1967 to 1971,eventually moving to Illinois,where she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. While instructing numerous sociology courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign,Huber served as the director of Women's Studies Program for two years (1978–1980),and then became the head of the Department of Sociology in 1979 until 1983. In 1984,Huber left Illinois for an opportunity at the Ohio State University,where she became the dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,coordinating dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences,and senior vice president for academic affairs and university provost. During her time,Huber was president of Sociologists for Women in Society from 1972 to 1974,the Midwest Sociological Society from 1979 to 1980,and the American Sociological Association from 1988 to 1989. Being highly recognized for her excellence,in 1985 Huber was given the Jessie Bernard Award by the American Sociological Association. Not only was Huber an instructor of sociology at multiple institutions or president of different organization,she also served different editorial review boards,research committees,and counseled and directed many institutions on their sociology departments.
Maureen T. Hallinan (1940–2014) was an American sociologist and the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She conducted research on the sociology of education,and she was the founding director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. In 1996,she served as president of the American Sociological Association.
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