{"id":2178,"date":"1994-12-15T02:48:34","date_gmt":"1994-12-15T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:16:26","slug":"ruth-simmons-selected-to-become-smiths-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1994\/12\/15\/ruth-simmons-selected-to-become-smiths-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Simmons selected to become Smith\u2019s next president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December 15, 1994<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ruth Simmons selected to become Smith\u2019s next president<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board of trustees announced that Ruth Simmons would become Smith\u2019s ninth president. Simmons, who was working as vice provost at Princeton College, would be the first black president at a Seven Sisters College and the first black woman to lead a top-ranking college in the U.S. Simmons, who grew up in the Jim Crow South, was a key figure in race relations at Princeton: a 1993 report she wrote led to the establishment of a Princeton office to handle racial bias and harassment complaints.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the announcement can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.12.16.-Simmons-to-Become-Ninth-President-of-Smith-1.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1994.12.16.-Simmons-to-Become-Ninth-President-of-Smith-2.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 15, 1994 Ruth Simmons selected to become Smith\u2019s next president The board of trustees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[106,84],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-106","tag-institutional-action","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}