YALE'S NEW #2: SALOVEY NAMED PROVOST 8.29.08
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 president. A committee will be formed to recommend his successor as dean, Levin said.
