Diana Chapman Walsh
Diana Chapman Walsh | |
|---|---|
| 12th President of Wellesley College | |
| In office 1993–2007 | |
| Preceded by | Nannerl O. Keohane |
| Succeeded by | H. Kim Bottomly |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College (BA) Boston University (MS, PhD) |
| Thesis | Medicine as management: the corporate medical director's complex and changing role (1983) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Public health |
| Institutions | |
Diana Chapman Walsh was President of Wellesley College from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure, the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The faculty established new majors in environmental studies, quantitative reasoning, cinema and media studies, neurosciences, and astrophysics. Japanese, Arabic and Korean languages were added to the curriculum as well, and a new department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was launched.