Beverly Daniel Tatum, president, Spelman College selected as one of the Top Ten Black Women in Higher Education.
Before becoming president of the Atlanta women's college, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Giving academic inspection to a common phenomenon on college campuses, Tatum's work immediately put her in the spotlight of academic circles all across the country. An "integration baby" herself, Tatum went to high school in suburban Bridgewater, Ma., before attending Wesleyan University and Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. She later received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan. Before taking the job at Spelman in 2002, Tatum worked as a professor and administrator at Mount Holyoke College for 13 years. Before that, she worked at Westfield State College in Massachusetts and the University of Santa Barbara in California. At Spelman, Tatum says she's proud to carry on a long and fine tradition of women's and African-American education. She says Spelman creates an affirming environment for young black women at a time when race and gender are still too often regarded as challenges
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