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...University's search for a new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ended this week when Dean Rosovsky nominated Edward L. Keenan '57, professor of History, for the post currently occupied by acting dean Peter S. McKinney...
...Keenan's nomination follows a longstanding pattern of putting academics into the largely administrative position, but no one seems to doubt Keenan's qualifications on either count...
...specialist in medieval Russian history, Keenan is currently director of the Russian Research Center, a post he plans to abandon when he takes his new job July 1, pending confirmation--usually rubber-stamped--by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers in the coming month...
...only conceivable stain on Keenan's record is the postion he has held since September 1975 on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University, the national university of Iran at Teheran, but Keenan said Monday he will drop that position if it conflicts with his work at the GSAS...
Most people involved with the GSAS reacted favorably to the Keenan appointment. "We looked for somebody who was not necessarily an ultra-liberal, but for an efficient administrator. We believe that a lot of the problems with minority admissions at the GSAS lie in efficiency problems," Michael Harris, a spokesman for the GSAS Task Force on minority recruitment and admissions, said...