Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and a dual M.B.A.-M.F.A. degree with the Stern School of Business at N.Y.U." In September 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Schmidt Campbell as the vice chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Spelman College Presidency (2015 – 2022) Schmidt Campbell assumed the role of president of Spelman College on August 1, 2015 where she succeeded Beverly Daniel Tatum. Under her leadership, Spelman moved from 77 to 57 on the U.S. News & World Report annual Best College rankings and ranked No.1 HBCU for the 13th year in a row. In addition, the College secured the No. 6 spot on U.S. News' inaugural list of Top Performers on Social Mobility. On April 25, 2022, it was announced that Schmidt Campbell will be retiring and ending her tenure as president on June 30, 2022. She will be succeeded by American doctor Helene D. Gayle. Awards and honors Schmidt Campbell currently sits on the boards of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the High Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and is on the Advisory Boards of the Bonner Foundation, and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. She was previously on the boards of the American Academy in Rome, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and the United Nations International School. Schmidt Campbell is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1986. Schmidt Campbell holds several honorary degrees, including one from her alma mater, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania as well as the College of New Rochelle, Colgate University, City University of New York, and Pace University. At Syracuse, she has been honored with the Arents Pioneer Medal (1993), a Chancellor's Citation and the College of Arts and Sciences' Distinguished Alumni Award. She was also awarded an honorary degree (2021). Personal life Schmidt Campbell lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She and her husband, physicist George Campbell Jr., president emeritus of the Cooper Union, are the parents of three sons. Selected works Schmidt Campbell has published books on variety of topics. Some of the books include: For this book, she won the 2018 Hooks National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. Schmidt Campbell has