Black scholars named deans at Brown and Princeton

(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper) – Two African-American scholars have been named deans at two of the nation’s eight Ivy League universities.

Effective July 1, Andrew G. Campbell will assume the reins of Brown University’s Graduate School. In that role, he will support the academic pursuits of over 2,000 students enrolled in doctoral and master’s programs in more than 40 departments, centers and institutes.

Campbell joined the faculty of the Providence, R.I., school in 1994 and currently serves as a professor of medical science in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.

Two states over, Princeton University in New Jersey named LaTanya Buck the dean for diversity and inclusion—a newly-minted position which emerged from the May 2015 report issued by the University’s special task force on diversity, equity and inclusion. She will begin her new role in August.

Buck is founding director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.

This article originally published in the April 25, 2016 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.