page_title: Adele Simmons
section_title: Career positions
hierarchical_section_title: Adele Simmons / Biography / Career positions
caption_attribution_description: English: photo of Adele Simmons Hall, home to Hampshire's School of Cognitive Science
context_page_description: Adele Smith Simmons is an American academic, business director, philanthropist, academic administrator, the third president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1977 to 1989 and the second president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1989 to 1999. Simmons also served as the dean of student affairs at Princeton University, from 1972 to 1977, where she was the first female dean.
  Simmons currently serves as the president of the Global Philanthropy Partnership, a Chicago-based organization that "provides information and resources to donors and donor advisors interested in addressing issues of global importance."
context_section_description: Simmons' past academic administrative positions include professor of African studies at Tufts University, dean of Jackson College for Women at Tufts University, professor of history at Princeton University, dean of student affairs at Princeton University (1972–77), Harvard University Harvard Board of Overseers board member (1972–79) where she was one of the first women elected, president of Hampshire College (1977–89), and president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, from 1989 to 1999.
caption: Adele Simmons Hall at Hampshire College, named in Simmons' honor
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