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Simmons was the first in her sharecropper family to consistently attend middle school and it changed her life.

In 2001, Ruth Simmons made history when she became the first African-American president of an Ivy League university, as well as Brown University's first female president. Prior to this appointment, she served as the first African-American female president of a major college or university when she took the reins at Smith College in 1995.In 1983, after serving as associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California, Simmons joined the Princeton University administration. She left in 1990 for two years to serve as provost at Spelman College, returning to Princeton in 1992 as vice provost. In 1995, she became president of Smith College, the largest women's college in the U.S., where she launched a number of strategic initiatives to strengthen the college's academic programs and inaugurated the first engineering program at a U.S. women's college.