Word: rupp
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Rice University President George E. Rupp, one-time dean of Harvard Divinity School, was named president of Columbia University Monday...
...Rupp, a Presbyterian minister who received his doctorate in divinity from Harvard, succeeds Michael I. Sovern as leader of the financially troubled institutions. Columbia last year faced a faculty challenge against Sovern's budgetary policies...
...Rupp, 50, articulated a vision of university-wide cooperation for Columbia, rhetoric reminiscent of President Neil L. Rudenstine when he was initially selected by Harvard's search committee. Rupp also spoke of the importance of faculty and student diversity...
...Rupp was on the intermediate list in the Harvard presidential search...
...rethink their missions, decide what they can do best and -- in a form of academic triage -- abandon certain fields of learning to others. Rice University in Houston has often been called "the Harvard of the South" (although these days the motto should be reversed, claims its president, George Rupp). Rice has flourished by trying to recruit National Merit scholars, who constitute 40% of the class of 1995, and by developing a national reputation for superb teaching in the sciences and social sciences...