Word: levine
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...think it's a reflection that the Yale of today and Yale of the past 30 years is not what people years ago might have thought Yale represents," he said. Levin will be the first Jewish president of Yale, which once maintained quotas limiting its number of Jewish students...
...Levin, 46, received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1974 and was named to the economics faculty that same year. He was the chair of the Economics Department before being named dean of the Graduate School last spring...
...Richard Levin is truly a 'citizen' of this university. [His] warmth, integrity, and steady judgment will make him a great President," Lamar said...
Early reports of the Yale selection committee's secretive deliberations had not mentioned Levin as a leading contender. Some professors and alumni had said his relative lack of upper-level administrative experience and his relative youth made his appointment unlikely...
...Levin was a candidate from the beginning of the search, according to Vernon R. Loucks Jr., a senior trustee on the Yale Corporation. Loucks said that Levin emerged as the front-runner after a field of hundreds was narrowed to three earlier this month, the Associated Press reported...