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The
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President
of the Mellon Foundation since 1988, Bowen was president
of Princeton University from 1972–1988, where he
also served as professor of economics and public affairs.
He joined the Princeton faculty in 1958, specializing
in labor economics, and served as provost there from
1967–1972. Bowen is the author or co-author of
19 books, including most recently Reclaiming the Game:
College Sports and Educational Values (2003) with Sarah
A. Levin, and The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational
Values (2001) with James Shulman. Other recent books
include the Grawemeyer Award-winning The Shape of the
River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in
College and University Admissions (1998) with Derek
Bok. 
In addition to being Chancellor and President, Cantor
is also a distinguished professor of psychology and
women's studies in the Syracuse University College of
Arts and Sciences. Cantor arrived at Syracuse from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she
was chancellor. She has held a variety of administrative
positions encompassing all aspects of a research university--from
chair of the department of psychology at Princeton to
dean of the graduate school and then provost and executive
vice president for academic affairs at the University
of Michigan. She has been an advocate for racial justice
and for diversity in higher education, and she has written
and lectured widely on these subjects. At Michigan,
she was closely involved in the University's defense
of affirmative action in the cases Grutter and Gratz.
Cantor has also lectured and written extensively on
liberal education and the creative campus. Dr. Cantor
is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences. 
Coleman assumed the presidency of the University
of Michigan in 2002, following seven years as president
of the University of Iowa. She is professor of biological
chemistry in the U-M Medical School and professor of
chemistry in the College of Literature, Science, and
the Arts. She has served as provost and vice president
for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico
and as vice-chancellor for graduate studies and research,
and associate provost and dean of research at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Elected to the National
Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1997,
she co-chaired the IOM's Committee on the Consequences
of Uninsurance. Coleman is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her extensive
leadership positions in higher education include serving
on the Association of American Universities executive
committee, and the boards of directors of the American
Council on Education, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association, and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics.
Hunter-Gault joined CNN in 1999 from National Public
Radio, where she had served as NPR’s chief correspondent
in Africa. Prior to NPR, she was with PBS for 20 years,
where she was a national correspondent for The NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer. During that time she also anchored
the award-winning Rights and Wrongs, a television newsmagazine
on human rights. She began her career as a reporter
for The New Yorker, worked as a local news anchor for
WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and reported for The New
York Times for ten years, including two as the Times’
Harlem bureau chief. During her association with The
NewsHour, she earned two Emmys, and two Peabody Awards
— one, for excellence in broadcast journalism for
her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series on
South Africa; the other for general reporting on Africa
in 1998. Hunter-Gault is recipient of several additional
honors and awards, including more than two-dozen honorary
degrees; the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from
the National Association of Black Journalists; the 1990
Sidney Hillman Award; the American Women in Radio and
Television Award; and two awards from the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting for excellence in local programming,
among many others. The first African American woman
to graduate from the University of Georgia (1962), Hunter-Gault
is author of In My Place (1992), a memoir about her
experiences at that time. 
A nationally known economist and former president
of Macalester College, whose expertise focuses on the
interplay between education and economics, McPherson
spent the 22 years prior to assuming the Macalester
presidency as professor of economics, chair of the Economics
Department, and dean of faculty at Williams College
in Williamstown, Massachusetts. McPherson, who is co-author
and editor of seven books, including Keeping College
Affordable and Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy,
is the co-founder and co-editor of Economics and Philosophy.
He serves as a trustee of the College Board and the
American Council on Education. McPherson was a Fellow
of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Senior Fellow
at the Brookings Institution. 
Mokgoro was appointed to the Constitutional Court,
the supreme judical body of South Africa, in October
1994. Previously, she served as Associate Professor
at the University of the Western Cape (1992–1993),
from where she moved to the Centre for Constitutional
Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council, serving
as Specialist Researcher (Human Rights).
Charles G. Ransom
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