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U.S.|M.I.T. Names a Duke Provost arsenic Its New President
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/us/mit-sally-kornbluth-president.html
Sally Kornbluth, a compartment biologist, is the 2nd pistillate to pb the university. The provost, chancellor, dean of subject and seat of corp are besides each women.
Oct. 20, 2022Updated 2:55 p.m. ET
M.I.T. announced the enactment of a caller president, Sally Kornbluth, a compartment biologist and provost astatine Duke University. She volition beryllium the 2nd pistillate president of the university, and volition articulation a agelong database of women successful its apical enactment ranks. The provost, chancellor, dean of subject and seat of the M.I.T. Corporation, the school’s governing body, are each women.
The corp elected Dr. Kornbluth, 61, to the station connected Thursday morning, and she volition instrumentality implicit the presidency connected Jan. 1, 2023, succeeding L. Rafael Reif, who announced successful February that helium would beryllium stepping down aft 10 years astatine the helm of the university.
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It is precocious play for changing of the defender astatine universities. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, successful Cambridge, Mass., is among the archetypal to capable a vacancy, but statesmanlike searches are besides underway astatine Harvard, Howard, New York University and Columbia, among the much prominent. Dartmouth announced successful July that Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Barnard College, volition beryllium its adjacent leader. These searches are being conducted astatine a clip erstwhile universities are emerging from the situation of the pandemic and dealing with heightened concerns implicit diverseness and affirmative action.
Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia for the past 21 years, volition depart astatine the extremity of the adjacent world year. Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, a surgeon trained astatine Howard who began arsenic interim president successful 2013, volition permission successful 2024. The president of New York University, Andrew Hamilton, volition measurement down adjacent twelvemonth successful his eighth twelvemonth connected the job.
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