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Brown's Simmons named to Princeton Board of Trustees

Written by Daily Princetonian Staff,
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

The day after she retires from Brown University and is succeeded by Wilson School Dean Christina Paxson, outgoing Brown president Ruth Simmons will join Princeton’s Board of Trustees, the University announced Tuesday. Simmons, the first black president in Ivy ...

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  • 12:30 p.m. on June 13th, 2012
    Posted by
    SL09

    Brava! A win for Pton.

  • 4:19 p.m. on June 13th, 2012
    Posted by
    alum

    awesome

  • 12:04 a.m. on June 14th, 2012
    Posted by
    Diversity

    11 of 40 (28%) board members are black?! and 3 of 7 (43%) of the slate just named?!

  • 3 p.m. on June 14th, 2012
    Posted by
    $$

    lotta rich people

  • 6:43 p.m. on June 15th, 2012
    Posted by
    Alum

    How much will she be paid? As Brow president,she more than doubled her salary with trustee "honorariums".

  • 7:09 p.m. on June 15th, 2012
    Posted by
    Alum

    How much will she be paid? As Brow president,she more than doubled her salary with trustee "honorariums".

  • 9:42 p.m. on July 2nd, 2012
    Posted by
    woody wilsom

    my earlier comments criticizing Simmons for promoting corporate greed as a well-paid Director of Goldman Sachs who was among the Directors most involved in paying top executives obscene amounts of money was deleted. I wonder why. Will the same thing happen again? It's a fact, not an opinion. Lots of Brown students and alumni felt that this daughter of a sharecropper undermined her integrity in the process. I also noted the two decades of service by Harold Shapiro on the Board of Dow Chemical, a company not exactly noted for altruism. Will this lead to the second deletion of my comments? Shapiro mentored Simmons--again, a fact, not an opinionl

  • 1:35 p.m. on Sept. 24th, 2012
    Posted by
    MckenzieKrista29

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