Gazettenet.com
By CHAD CAIN
Staff Writer
Friday, June 17, 2011
Amherst College has selected the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as its next president, marking the first time that a woman will lead the 190-year-old liberal arts institution.
Carolyn Arthur "Biddy" Martin, 60, one of the nation's top openly gay university leaders, will become Amherst's 19th president in August. She's scheduled to visit campus on Thursday for an all-college meeting.
"In some ways I'm returning to my roots," said Martin in a telephone interview from Madison Tuesday. "I was the beneficiary of a strong, liberal arts education."
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Anthony Marx’s Legacy at Amherst
The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 14, 2010, 1:21 pm
By Richard Kahlenberg
Last week, the president of Amherst College, Anthony Marx, announced he will leave his post to become president of the New York Public Library next year. As the leader of a relatively small (if very prestigious) institution for eight years, Marx had an out-sized impact on the national conversation about diversity in higher education.
For many years, diversity on selective campuses meant assembling a class that included rich kids of all colors. Research found that eighty-six percent of blacks at selective institutions were middle or upper-middle class; and whites were even wealthier. In 2004, Marx – along with Lawrence Summers, then president Harvard University, and William Bowen, then president of the Mellon Foundation – said higher education needed to pay equal attention to socioeconomic diversity, and took important steps to do so.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/anthony-marx%e2%80%99s-legacy-at-amherst/27585?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
October 14, 2010, 1:21 pm
By Richard Kahlenberg
Last week, the president of Amherst College, Anthony Marx, announced he will leave his post to become president of the New York Public Library next year. As the leader of a relatively small (if very prestigious) institution for eight years, Marx had an out-sized impact on the national conversation about diversity in higher education.
For many years, diversity on selective campuses meant assembling a class that included rich kids of all colors. Research found that eighty-six percent of blacks at selective institutions were middle or upper-middle class; and whites were even wealthier. In 2004, Marx – along with Lawrence Summers, then president Harvard University, and William Bowen, then president of the Mellon Foundation – said higher education needed to pay equal attention to socioeconomic diversity, and took important steps to do so.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/anthony-marx%e2%80%99s-legacy-at-amherst/27585?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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