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Aminta Breaux poses at the Bowie State University student center. (Katherine
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Even before Aminta H. Breaux arrived at Bowie State

University, she started to get messages. Emails hit her in-box

after the announcement that she would be the school’s next

president. Her phone rang, too.

“I had a prospective student’s mother call me at my former

institution while I was still there to tell me how excited she

was that I was going to be the next president, and I was the

first female president and that made her so — she felt so

proud,” Breaux said. “And she was looking forward to seeing

me. So, I look forward to seeing her in the fall.”

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