NEW YORK, NY (AP) -- Columbia University 's new college dean is the first black and the first woman to serve in the post.The university said Friday it appointed Michelle Moody-Adams as dean of Columbia College . She succeeds retiring dean Austin Quigley on July 1.
Moody-Adams is the former vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell University in Ithaca . She has also taught philosophy at Indiana University , the University of Rochester and Wellesley College .
The undergraduate college in Manhattan has 4,000 students. Its 9 percent acceptance rate makes it one of the most competitive in the country.
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