Hoda has held a number of positions in academia including Dean of the College of Arts amp; Sciences at Northeaster Illinois University and Vice President and Dean of Olivet College. She href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/13/us/racial-tension-erupts-tearing-a-college-apart.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank"describes her work in the aftermath of the racial incident at Olivet that hit the news in 1992 to help avoid such an incident occurring again. Hoda is now head of the href="http://www.bahaichair.umd.edu/" target="_blank"Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of MD. She describes for us what a university chair is and what is the mission of the Baha'i Chair for World Peace.