Thursday morning, the Yale community awoke to a momentous email: Richard Levin, the president of the university since 1993 announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year.
Yale's dean of undergraduate education Joseph Gordon, whose roughly 35 years at Yale overlap almost entirely with Levin's, expressed the feeling of many on campus when he said that, although he'd known Levin would eventually retire, the assurance and ease of his presidency makes the thought of his departure difficult to absorb.
"It's hard to separate him from the whole place for the last 20 years," Gordon said. "He changed so much. He made Yale so much a better place. He took a great place and made it even better."
Many of those changes will linger on far beyond Levin's departure, forming a remarkable legacy that has led some to call him the greatest president Yale has had in its 311-year history.
Yale's dean of undergraduate education Joseph Gordon, whose roughly 35 years at Yale overlap almost entirely with Levin's, expressed the feeling of many on campus when he said that, although he'd known Levin would eventually retire, the assurance and ease of his presidency makes the thought of his departure difficult to absorb.
"It's hard to separate him from the whole place for the last 20 years," Gordon said. "He changed so much. He made Yale so much a better place. He took a great place and made it even better."
Many of those changes will linger on far beyond Levin's departure, forming a remarkable legacy that has led some to call him the greatest president Yale has had in its 311-year history.
- 8/31/2012
- by Joe Satran
- Huffington Post
Fareed Zakaria, the Time magazine editor-at-large and CNN host who recently admitted to plagiarism, resigned from his position on Yale University's board to reevaluate his professional life, a Yale spokesman told TheWrap. In a letter to Yale President Richard Levin, Zakaria -- a Yale alumnus -- said he planned to focus on his work in the wake of a plagiarism inquiry that raised questions about the veracity of prominent reporter's large oeuvre of journalism. Also read: Fareed Zakaria Passes CNN, Time Magazine Reviews, Will Keep Jobs "I am reexamining my professional life and I...
- 8/21/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
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