Career
Cross is a professor and university administrator, teaching at Claremont University, becoming vice chancellor for student affairs at City University of New York, serving as the president of the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation and later becoming the first female president of Chicago State University in 1990. President Bill Clinton appointed Cross to the steering committee for his America Reads initiative. She was elected vice-chair of the American Association of Higher Education and has received eight honorary degrees from various universities. Cross moved from the presidency of Chicago State in 1997 to the presidency of the GE Fund, a non-profit wing of General Electric. Shortly after that, she accepted the position as the first female president of Morris Brown College.
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