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Students walking down Summit Street Friday.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) - The Iowa Board of Regents announced its pick for the next president of the University of Iowa Friday; Dr. Barbara J. Wilson.
Wilson was most recently the executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs for the University of Illinois System. She is a native of Wisconsin and got three degrees from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
During an introductory press conference Friday afternoon at the Levitt Center, Wilson talked about her love of the Midwest and eagerness to lead Iowa s flagship school.
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In “pre-colonial times,” wrote the late feminist scholar Niara Sudarkasa, women in West Africa were “conspicuous in high places.” They led armies, often played important consultative roles in politics, and in the case of the Lovedu people (present-day South Africa), they were even supreme Rain Queens. What it meant to be a woman in many African pre-colonial societies was not rigid. “Among the Langi of northern Uganda,” writes Sylvia Tamale, dean of the faculty of Law at Makerere University Uganda, “the mudoko dako, or effeminate males, were treated as women and could marry men.” There were also the Chibados or Quimbanda of Angola, male diviners whom, some scholars have argued, were believed to carry female spirits through anal sex.
Emory University s business school ranked in a tie for 26th among U.S. colleges offering master of business administration programs, according to a new study by U.S. News that examined 364 schools.
The Atlanta school has an annual in-state tuition rate for full-time students of $67,100, and its enrollment of full-time students was 286, according to the 2022 U.S. News ranking.Â
U.S. News ended up ranking only 143 schools out of the 364. The ranked schools provided adequate data on their MBA programs for the news publisher to calculate the results, which are based on a weighted average of indicators such as test scores, recruiter assessments and acceptance rates.
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