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Dean Search: Without seat on committee, YCC to solicit student input

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, September 16, 2008

There weren’t any students on the search committee when the University tapped a popular psychology professor, Peter Salovey, to serve as dean of Yale College.

Nor were there any in 1992, when Richard Brodhead — then the chair of the English Department and now the ninth president of Duke University — assumed the deanship in the wake of professor Donald Kagan’s resignation from the post.

Yet it still took students by surprise when Gary Haller, master of Jonathan Edwards College, released the list of individuals who would pick Yale College’s next dean one week ago: There were...

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