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Spelman College will soon have a new president. The board of trustees announced that Ayanna Howard, a PhD in electrical engineering and dean at The Ohio State University, will be the college's 12th president.

Howard spoke with AJC education reporter Martha Dalton about leading one of the country's top-performing HBCUs.

"We ... have to think about, ‘How do you build on that legacy to address this rapidly changing world?’ That’s going to be a challenge, and there is no rule book," she said.

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