Columbia names 1st African-American dean

03Mar09

According to the Columbia Spectator, Columbia University’s daily newspaper, Michele Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell University, will become Columbia College’s next dean, becoming the first woman and first African American to hold the post. She starts on July 1, 2009.

Moody-Adams graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 with a B.A. in philosophy. She also received a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics, in 1980, from Somerville College at Oxford University. She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1986. Before joining Cornell in Fall 2000, Moody-Adams worked at Indiana University, Bloomington, as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education.

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