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Ruth Simmons Biography

Ruth Simmons (born Ruth Jean Stubblefield; July 3, 1945) is the current President of Prairie View A&M University. She previously served as the 18th president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000, assuming that office in the fall of 2001. She also held appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, Time named her as America's best college president. According to a March 2009 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons had more than an 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates.

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It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Judging, Ego, Important, Relationship, Leadership, Place

Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.

Bill, Grateful, Innovation, Support, Work

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Team, Years, Want, Things, Year, Expand

In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the link between applied research and policy and program development. Recently there has been less interest in these issues and we feel that this interest must be rekindled.

Applied, Early, Innovation, Issues, Research, Scientists

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

Agency, Donor, Giving, Like, Realize, Successful

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U. S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

Effort, Endeavors, Essentials, Fact, Health, Intellectual

The humanities don't belong to some elitist group. . . knowledge as a whole should be embraced.

Embraced, Groups, Humanities, Humanity, Knowledge, Should

If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

Leader, Advice, Risk, Against, Conventional, Society

We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

Impact, Trying, Needs, Possibility, Approach

If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact, this should be very relevant for public health initiatives in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.

Impact, Innovation, Michigan, Pilot, Expand

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

Although, Children, Disputes, My Family, Organize

I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

Worry, Parent, Too Much, Taught, Intent, Big

It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.

Device, Husband, India, People, Population Problem, Technology

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Ambition, Lacks, Leader, Nothing, Worse

I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

America, Latin, Men, Urgently, Winning

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

Education, Good Living, Understand, Value, Value Of Education, Worthwhile

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

Boys, Corporations, Giving, Humanistic, Things, Thinking

Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.

Collect, Law, Order, Organization, Service, Used

My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U. S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

Education, Effort, Essential, Health Education, Intellectual, Michigan

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Available, Effort, Opportunity, Organization, People, Research

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