From kopff@spot.colorado.edu Sun Mar 17 12:40:03 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g2HKe2DN115108 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:40:02 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Mar 17 12:40:02 2002 -0800 Received: from spot.colorado.edu (spot.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.2]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g2HKe1re018399 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:40:02 -0800 Received: from localhost (kopff@localhost) by spot.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/standard) with ESMTP id g2HKe1W16891 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:40:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:40:01 -0700 (MST) From: KOPFF E CHRISTIAN To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: A Job Opening not on the APA webpage In-Reply-To: <013401c1cdf0$6bf5cac0$5103a5d8@computer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/16/education/16COLL.html PRESIDENT OF CORNELL TO STEP DOWN IN 2003 by Karen W. Arenson Hunter R. Rawlings III, the tall, gentlemanly president of Cornell University, who since 1995 has presided over a period of financial prosperity and growth, announced yesterday [=Friday, March 15. Are we all thinking the same thing?] that he would step down on June 30, 2003. Dr. Rawlings, a classicist, said that after seven years as president of Cornell -- and seven as president of the University of Iowa before that -- he had a strong desire to return to teaching classics and writing. "It's still in my blood," he said in a telephone interview yesterday after meeting with his trustees [in the temple connected to the Theater of Pompey in Rome?]. "I just find the intellectual engagement very fulfilling." [The Times mentions that Princeton, Harvard, Brown and Columbia all got new presidents "in the last year."] Cornell's endowment has roughly doubled, to $2.9 billion, and its selectiveness has increased....It accepted about 27 percent of its applicants last year -- down from 34 percent -- and 52 percent of those accepted enrolled.... Academically, Dr. Rawlings reorganized and expanded the biological sciences and built bridges among the different areas of biological research in Ithaca. He also linked them to Cornell's medical school in Manhattan, as well as to Rockefeller University and the Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, and encouraged the creation of a branch of the medical college in Qatar, which will grant Cornell degress. [The information in this last paragraph is lacking in other accounts. It may represent Rawlings' own interpretation of what he did of value. Notice any area conspicuous by its absence?] Dr. Rawlings said he had been more successful at changing the diversity of his top administration than changing that of the faculty or the student body. Cornell's provost is a lesbian, and six of its eight vice-presidents and three of its 10 deans are women. "When I arrived," Dr. Rawlings said, "there was one female vice president." [Text from the Saturday New York TIMES. Passages in quotes are from HRR III; passages in brackets are from me.] Christian Kopff University of Colorado Boulder kopff@spot.colorado.edu .