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Pointing to the fact the Cole was the first African-American woman to serve as president of Spelman, Carty said, "it's really the quality of her personal and professional achievements that just make her an inspirational figure...
Known as "Sister Prez" on the Spelman campus, Cole's decade-long tenure was marked by a tripling of the school's endowment and a capital campaign which attracted financial support from Oprah Winfrey and a $20-million gift from Bill and Camille Cosby...
...Spelman is the only historically black college to rank number one in any category of U.S. News and World Report's annual college issue. Spelman was also ranked first in a Black Enterprise listing of the top 50 institutions "where African Americans are most likely to succeed...
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...