The first woman and first person of color to lead the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania says she wants young people to see her history-making role as an example to 'always bet on yourself.'
"In the past couple of months the world has really changed," said James, whose appointment was announced in February."We have focus on racial justice. We have the COVID pandemic, so really the impact that those events have had on higher education means that my first set of initiatives will have to be how do we bring together an incredibly successful student experience for our students when they come back in the fall.
James said she plans to focus at Wharton on making sure positions are filled with the"right kind of talent," adding that she believes"talent exists everywhere and comes in all colors and packages." Dr. Erika H. James has been named dean of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1, 2020.
"We often say that there's not a pipeline of diverse talent. Well, there's not a pipeline if you look in a very narrow set of places for that talent," she said."One of the things companies can do differently is broaden where they go to identify where there's possibly really exceptional talent that might be untapped."
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