Female Presidents of Ivy League Colleges Mark Milestone at Meeting

In just a few months, women will lead half of the the Ivy League universities, and on Wednesday those presidents met at Harvard University for a discussion of female leaders in higher education, according to today’s Harvard Crimson. In attendance were three current presidents, Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, Ruth J. Simmons of Brown University, and Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton University; one predecessor, Judith Rodin of Penn, the league’s first female president; and one president-elect, Drew G. Faust of Harvard, who takes office on July 1. The three sitting presidents credited a former Princeton president, Harold T. Shapiro, with having groomed them for leadership, the Associated Press reported. —Andrew Mytelka