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Chair Yolanda Moses Named President Of AAHE;
Nancy Dye To Become The Association's Acting Chair

Washington DC—June 9, 2000—The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) has named Yolanda Moses as its fourth president. She will take the helm at AAHE August 1, 2000 and will step down from her role as chair of the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) on July 31. Nancy Dye, president of Oberlin College, will move from her role as vice chair of AAC&U's board to become acting chair. AAC&U's by-laws stipulate that board members must come either from an AAC&U member institution or from the non-academic community.

We will miss Yolanda's leadership on the Board, but we warmly welcome the opportunity to work closely with her in this new role, said AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider. AAHE's long-term emphases on faculty work and assessment are strong complements to AAC&U's focus on educational and curricular quality, meaningful inclusion, and education for shared futures, at home and abroad. Yolanda and I have already agreed that our associations can work together in new ways to make the power of liberal education a resource for every college student.

Dr. Moses has been a central figure in AAC&U's work for more than a decade, serving from 1989-1992 as a member of the national panel for AAC&U's reports on liberal learning and the college major, and from 1988 to the present as a leader in AAC&U's work on campus diversity and equity. She has been an advisor to the Program on the Status and Education of Women, and she played a major role both in AAC≈U's Tri-National Seminar on Diversity and Higher Education in India, South Africa and the United States, and in the Assessing Campus Diversity initiative. She is the author of Black Women in Academe (AAC, 1989) and co-author of Diversity in Higher Education: A Work in Progress (AAC, 1995).

Dr. Dye has been a member of AAC&U's board of directors since 1996 and has participated in various AAC&U initiatives, such as Racial Legacies and Learning: An American Dialogue, a civic engagement project.