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Home > March/April 2009

March/April 2009

Cover Story

Inauguration 2009

Thousands gather on campus to watch and celebrate the inauguration of one of our own, President Barack Obama ’83.

By Ethan Rouen ’04J

March/April 2009

Web Extras

  • Ben Jealous ’94 Teleconference
  • Five Minutes with Steven Mintz
  • “Taxing the Poor”
  • Inauguration

Features

Moody-Adams Named 15th Dean

Michele M. Moody-Adams, vice provost for undergraduate education, professor of philosophy and Director/Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Cornell, has been named to succeed Austin Quigley as the 15th Dean of the College.

Q&A: Dean Austin Quigley, II

In the second part of a wide-ranging interview, Dean Austin Quigley picks up the story with the tumultuous week in 1997 in which he was fired and promptly rehired, and speaks personally about the events of 9-11 and a position he describes as a mission rather than a job.

By Alex Sachare ’71

Benjamin Jealous ’94: A Force for Change

The NAACP’s newest, and youngest, president speaks about how his upbringing shaped his need to effect social change and his plans for the 100-year-old organization.

By Amy Perkel Madsen ’89