Carnegie Foundation Names New Board Chair

2/14/2002

From: Gay Clyburn of The Carnegie Foundation 650-566-5162

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 14 -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named Janet L. Holmgren, president of Mills College (Calif.), as the new chair of its Board of Trustees. Holmgren brings extensive experience to the board, having taught and governed in higher education and having served on a number of higher education and nonprofit boards since 1972. She has served on the Carnegie Board since 1999.

Holmgren's 30 years in higher education include faculty and administration positions at Federal City College (Washington, D.C.), the University of Maryland, College Park, Princeton University, and since 1991 Mills College, where she serves as president and Susan Mills Professor. She writes and speaks nationally on a wide range of contemporary subjects including American literary style, women's leadership, women's roles in global society, and urban education reform.

Holmgren recently completed a one-year term as chair of the board of the American Council on Education and currently serves as chair of the executive committee of the Women's College Coalition. She is also active on the boards of the National Council for Research on Women and the East Bay Community Foundation.

Holmgren follows Katharine C. Lyall, president of the University of Wisconsin System, as the chair of the Carnegie Foundation Board. University of Texas at Brownsville President Juliet Garcia continues as vice-chair. The Foundation also named five new members to its Board of Trustees at its November meeting in Washington, D.C.: John Bransford, Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University (Tenn.); Susan Fuhrman, dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania; Nils Hasselmo, president of the Association of American Universities (Washington, D.C.); Renee Moore, lead teacher at Broad Street High School (Miss.); and Lynn Olson, senior editor with Education Week (Md.) and Quality Counts project editor. The new members will attend the first Board meeting of their four-year terms in July 2002. United States Circuit Judge David Tatel was re-elected to serve a second term ending in 2005.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie, "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education."

The Carnegie Foundation is governed by an independent, national Board of Trustees and uses income from its endowment to support its research and publication activities. The Foundation makes no grants.