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Top 25 Women in Higher Education and Beyond

 

President
The College of Idaho

Borst is the College of Idaho’s first female and 13th president, assuming the role in July 2015. Her administrative career is steeped in the liberal arts. She’s served as the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Whittier College and dean of arts and sciences at Union College. Borst is a historian whose research explores the relationship of medical science and gender and racial facets of professionalism.

President
Alabama State University

A Montgomery, Alabama, native, Boyd became president of her alma
mater in February 2014, after spending more than three decades in the Washington, D.C., area. Boyd was the first African-American female to earn a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Yale University. Her career includes time at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and as an analyst in the Strategic Systems Programs, where she conducted evaluations of strategic weapons systems on submarines.

Executive Dean for Student Affairs
Mercer County Community College

Campbell is president of the New Jersey Virtual Consortium, a joint effort among the state’s community colleges to provide distance-learning opportunities. In her long commitment to community service, she has been a Trenton Board of Education member and on the Board of Directors for Building One New Jersey. At Mercer, she’s served as assistant dean and director of the Virtual Campus. Campbell earned a master’s degree from The College of New Jersey and a doctorate from Rutgers University.

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