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Effective #1July2017, #PrincetonUniversitysTrustees have approved recommendations to name #WestCollege, a prominent and central campus building, for the #NobelLaureate #ToniMorrison an #EmeritusFacultyMember at #Princeton. #MorrisonHall #ToniMorrison is the #RobertFGoheen #Professor in the #Humanities, #Emerita, at #Princeton and a recipient of the #1993 #NobelPrizeInLiterature. She was the FIRST #AfricanAmerican to be awarded the #NobelPrizeInLiterature.#Morrison taught courses at #Princeton in the #Humanities and #AfricanAmericanStudies. One of her courses led to a book entitled “#PlayingInTheDark.” After several years she joined the creative writing program where she advised such students as the now-#PublishedWriters #DavidTreuer, #LadeeHubbard, #KateMorgenroth, #MacKenzieTuttle and #RachelKadish. Her arrival helped to attract other faculty and students of #Color to #Princeton, and she played a catalytic role in expanding #Princeton’s commitments both to the creative and performing arts and to African American studies. In #1994 she #Founded the #PrincetonAtelier, bringing together undergraduate students in interdisciplinary collaborations with acclaimed artists and performers such as *Jacquesd’Amboise, #ASByatt, #PeterSellars, #YoYo Ma, #RichardDanielpour, #BerniceJohnson Reagon, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, #Anonymous4, #RichardPrice, #PigIronTheatreCompany, #MariaTucci and #AllegroKent among others. In #1996 she gave the #KeynoteAddress: “The Place of the Idea, The Idea of the Place” — as #Princeton celebrated its #250thAnniversary, and In #2013 #PrincetonUniversity awarded her an #HonoraryDoctorate. #AlphaKappaAlpha #AK1908 #AKA109 @tonimorrison @mstonimorrison @akaintpres @akasorority1908