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11-11-2008, 07:54 PM
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| U Penn. provost will become Johns Hopkins' next president
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Ronald J. Daniels, the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, will become the 14th president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the school's trustees decided today.
Daniels was tapped in a special meeting of the Board of Trustees after an international search involving nearly 300 nominees.
"Ron is a strategic thinker, known for articulating and implementing bold and visionary academic ideas and initiatives," said Pamela P. Flaherty, chairman of both the board of trustees and the search committee.
| Johns Hopkins Names New University President - washingtonpost.com | 
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11-11-2008, 08:13 PM
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11-11-2008, 08:45 PM
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And another article: Hopkins announces Daniels as president -- baltimoresun.com
I met President-Elect Daniels today and he is a cool guy. In my opinion, Brody will be very missed but Daniels is a great selection to replace him next spring. And a very good selection for Homewood specifically.
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11-11-2008, 09:21 PM
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Provost to President almost sounds like a demotion. According to Webster's Colligiate Dictionary a "provost" is "the keeper of a prison" or, alternatively, "a high ranking university officer".
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11-11-2008, 09:41 PM
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...well it's not? I promise!
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11-11-2008, 10:20 PM
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I agree. Provost "sounds" like the highest position in a university, however the post is only second to the President of the university. It is the second highest post in the university, it is basically equal to the "Chief Academic Officer."
Provost --> President is not all that uncommon. Former JHU provost Steven Knapp is now currently President of GWU university. Current JHU Provost Kristina Johnson was former Dean of Duke's Pratt engineering school. I believe Dr. Bill Brody was former provost of University of Minnesota.
It is weird because President elect Ronald Daniels has only been at the helm of UPenn for 3.5 years. Is it common for high ranking officers to shift positions from university to university like this? I am uncomfortable with this constant shifting...Where is the loyalty to the university you have been chosen to lead if you leave after just 3.5 years.
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11-12-2008, 02:15 AM
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"Daniels said he hopes to enhance need-based aid at the university. Hopkins does not have need-blind admissions, meaning that students who have less ability to pay could be at a disadvantage in admissions decisions. He also said he would be a "champion" for undergraduate education." - baltimoresun.com
This sounds very promising. He doesn't hold office until March, right? I guess this means that this year's admissions will be unaffected.  | |
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11-12-2008, 02:20 PM
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| The possibility of a Hopkins law, business, medicine trifecta is finally within reach!  http://www.law.jhu.edu/ - Inaugural class has yet to be determined. Set to open August 2015???. Look for jhunewsletter to report on more updates.
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11-12-2008, 03:24 PM
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No offense to anyone, but why is this a "hot topic" on the front page? just wondering...
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11-12-2008, 03:49 PM
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Because it's big news. Major universities don't choose new Presidents all that often, and for better or worse the President can have a lot of impact.
Provost to President is very common. Penn's last two Presidents were provosts elsewhere in the Ivy League -- Judith Rodin (Yale) and Amy Gutmann (Princeton). The University of Chicago's current President, Robert Zimmer, was the Provost at Brown, well-regarded former Brown President Vartan Gregorian had been Provost at Penn, and Chicago's only female President, Hannah Gray, was Provost at Yale. (Lots and lots of other examples, too, up and down the prestige ladder.)
Daniels is sort of a double-play, too, because next to Provost, being Dean of a law school is also a popular pre-Presidential position, and that was what Daniels was doing at the University of Toronto before he went to Penn.
Daniels sounds like a great choice, because Toronto and Penn are both large, complex urban universities, like Johns Hopkins, so he probably knows a lot of the ropes around that. (At Penn, I think he was regarded as something of a lifesaver, because it turned out that Amy Gutmann's experience at Princeton was NOT extensive enough -- Princeton as an institution is really quite a bit smaller and less complex than places like Penn and Hopkins.)
It's hardly unknown for universities to promote internal candidates to be President (e.g., Drew Gilpin Faust at Harvard), but it's probably more common to pick an outsider (even Harvard reportedly offered the position to several outsiders first, which I think would have been a first).
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11-14-2008, 01:57 PM
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It is weird because President elect Ronald Daniels has only been at the helm of UPenn for 3.5 years. Is it common for high ranking officers to shift positions from university to university like this? I am uncomfortable with this constant shifting...Where is the loyalty to the university you have been chosen to lead if you leave after just 3.5 years.
| Yes. It's increasingly common. I think I recently read the average length of time someone stays as a provost or president is 5 years.
Everyone's always climbing the ladder - from dean to provost to president as well as trying to get to better and better institutions. I don't think it's ideal . . . but it's the way things are.
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11-14-2008, 03:36 PM
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Dean to provost is a pretty severe bottleneck, and the universe of candidates for presidencies isn't limited to provosts. When an opportunity like the presidency of Hopkins comes along, I don't think you can blame someone for accepting it unless he has a gold-plated guarantee of elevation to the presidency of his own institution (and it's of equivalent status) within a few years. That clearly wasn't going to be the case with Daniels -- the Penn position isn't likely to be vacant for another six or seven years, and Penn has a history of picking outsiders in any event.
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11-15-2008, 08:30 AM
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Currently, President Brody is the highest paid president in the country. Where do you think Daniels will fall? I'm sure Brody earned that pay over his 12 year tenure so I guess Daniels will have to as well.
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11-16-2008, 05:05 AM
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I wonder who Penn will pick for its next Provost...
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12-14-2008, 12:53 AM
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Do colleges not try to take people from the inside for these positions?
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