Emita Hill is the chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo. Before joining the University in 1991, Dr. Hill spent twenty years at Lehman College, the Bronx campus of the City University of New York, where she first served as chair of Romance Languages, then as associate provost and finally as vice- president for Institutional Advancement. In her role as an administrator, Dr. Hill has been an advocate of open admissions and access in higher education. She actively continues her scholarly career, writing extensively on French literature and thought in the Age of Enlightenment. Dr. Hill earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in French from Cornell University and Middlebury College, respectively, and received her Ph.D. in romance languages from Harvard University.