Word: spelman
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Cole, the first female African-American president of Spelman University, heralded Wilson as "a wonderful sister president" and praised Radcliffe's new incarnation...
Since Elders' departure in 1994, Henry W. Foster Jr. was denied Senate confirmation to be surgeon general because he had been involved in performing abortions, and acting surgeon general Audrey F. Manely resigned to become the president of Spelman College in Atlanta...
Cole retired from Spelman in June 1997 and is now the presidential distinguished professor at Emory University in anthropology, women's studies and African American studies...
...think she's a fantastic woman, she showed true leadership as president of a women's college. She moved Spelman into a new realm. I think she has an incredibly charismatic personality, she is a warm person," Bundles said...
Bundles, whose grandmother had attended Spelman between 1916 and 1920 "when she was unlikely to get into Radcliffe," noted that Cole's selection couldn't have happened 75 years ago." Still, she downplayed the significance of Cole's race...