Mary Schmidt Campbell named new president of Spelman College

Spelman College has named Mary Schmidt Campbell as its 10th president of the Atlanta-based historically-black women’s institution. Campbell, who will begin her new job on Aug. 1 following the tenure of Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 13 years as Spelman’s president, is the dean emerita of the Tisch School of the Arts and university professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University. Spelman College issued the following release late Saturday afternoon: Today the Board of Trustees…