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Meet Alison F. Richard—a British anthropologist who has risen to top posts in higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. She spent 30 years at Yale, including nearly nine as provost. And since 2003, she has served as head of John Harvard’s alma mater, the University of Cambridge...
...Richard became chair of the department and later director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 1994, she was chosen to be the provost of Yale, a post that brings with it a higher profile than its counterpart at Harvard...
...provost is the internal president,” says Kelly. “The provost is the inside face. So she was the one, day to day, who really had to define the university to its constituents...
...great leaders of higher education of this generation,” says Linda K. Lorimer, who has served as Yale’s secretary—one of its seven principal officers—since 1993. “Her years of service as Yale’s provost were filled with remarkable academic advancement...
Yale professor Burger notes that “the provost traditionally at Yale is a position rarely held for no more than three, three-and-a-half years, because you have to continually turn people down, so gradually your capital is spent...