<p>Retiring Swarthmore President Al Bloom has accepted the position of Vice Chancellor of NYU, in charge of the university’s new NYU Abu Dhabi campus.</p>
<p>It will consist of a college of liberal arts with an eventual enrollment of 2000 plus 800 grad students. The government of Abu Dhabi is building a new campus as part of a major planned development on an island in the harbor, where the new Guggenheim Museum will also be located.</p>
<p>The campus is expected to accept its first class for the fall of 2010. Bloom assumes full-time duties in Abu Dhabi in August.</p>
<p>Swarthmore link:
[Swarthmore</a> College | News | A Message from President Bloom to the Swarthmore Community](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/x20577.xml]Swarthmore”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/x20577.xml)</p>
<p>NYU link:
[NYU</a> > The Office of Public Affairs > Alfred Bloom, President of Swarthmore, to Lead NYU Abu Dhabi](<a href=“NYU News”>NYU News)</p>
<p>Chronicle of Higher Ed link:
[NYU</a> Hires Swarthmore’s President to Run New Campus in Abu Dhabi - Chronicle.com](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/news/article/5241/nyu-hires-swarthmores-president-to-run-new-campus-in-abu-dhab]NYU”>http://chronicle.com/news/article/5241/nyu-hires-swarthmores-president-to-run-new-campus-in-abu-dhab)</p>