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The presidency of Reed College, David Auston
and Colin Diver, visited campus in early December. The presidential search
committee said that they both are superbly qualified to be president
of Reed, are very different from each other, and are very interested in
the opportunity. The final-ists spoke with and were questioned by
faculty, alumni, students, and staff members during two days each of intensive
meetings.
David Auston,
former president and faculty member of Case Western Reserve University,
in Cleveland, has also served as provost of Rice University, dean of the
School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, and
department head of the physics research division at AT&T Bell Laboratories
(B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., University of Toronto; Ph.D. University of California
Berkeley). A physicist and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Auston has been studying veryhigh-speed optics and electronics.
Colin Diver is Charles A. Heimbold,
Jr. professor of law and economics and the former dean of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School. He is former dean and faculty member of the
Boston University School of Law; he has also served on the faculties of
law or public management at Boston University School of Management, the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Wharton
School (B.A., Amherst College; LL.B. Harvard Univer-sity). His fields
of interest are administrative law and torts.
Community members were asked to submit comments on both candidates to
the presidential search committee. The search committee will forward a
recommendation to the board of trustees, which will possibly make its
decision in February.
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