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YALE'S NEW #2: SALOVEY NAMED PROVOST

Search to replace popular dean set to begin

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, August 29, 2008

Yale College Dean Peter Salovey will be the University’s next provost, Yale President Richard Levin announced Wednesday, catapulting the “student-friendly dean,” who is highly visible at Yale College, to the second-highest position at the University.

The appointment fills a void in the upper reaches of his administration, in a position largely unknown — at least before Salovey’s appointment — to undergraduates, but opens up another, slightly closer to home.

The 50-year-old Salovey, a professor of psychology, will take office Oct. 1 as Yale’s number-two official behind the...

#1 By JE 2010 3:18p.m. on August 29, 2008

Gary Haller for Dean of Yale College.

#2 By Joey #9 6:02p.m. on August 29, 2008

Last shameless but kisser to the new Provosts office is a rotten egg and a loser.
I got a good jump start on my mustache,glasses -check , hair by Dow,Grudberg ? nada

#3 By joey 09 8:10p.m. on August 30, 2008

oh wow you posted my comment. Thanx.
Sorry about the typo, shameless butt kisser , hey guys it is okay to give props where props is due
And congratulations to Mr. Salovey

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