Levin to announce new provost this afternoon
University President Richard Levin will announce the appointment of Yale's new provost this afternoon, the News has learned.
A ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m., and the appointment will likely be announced in an e-mail to the community around the same time. Levin's selection, who will be Yale's chief administrative and academic officer after the president himself, will replace Andrew Hamilton, who will take the helm of the University of Oxford next fall.
Levin's selection has been a tightly guarded secret, and there is little indication as to whom he plans to tap. The...
I bet he picks Evan Bayh.