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ASSOCIATE PROVOST: Susan Rieger ’76L, former dean of
Ezra Stiles College at Yale, was named associate provost for equal
opportunity and affirmative action effective July 1. Rieger will
coordinate Columbia’s programs to promote diversity and to
create a working and learning environment that is free from
discrimination and harassment. Her duties include working with the
academic and administrative departments to recruit and maintain a
faculty and staff diverse in background and outstanding in
qualifications, and ensuring the University’s compliance with
laws and government regulations on equal opportunity and
affirmative action.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Virgil Renzulli, who managed media relations
and numerous other communications projects for Columbia as vice
president for public affairs since 1996, has resigned to become a
vice president for public affairs at Arizona State. There he will
work for Michael Crow, who had been Columbia’s executive vice
provost before being named President of ASU last spring.
ALUMNI AFFAIRS: Dr. Laurance J. Guido ’65 ‘69
P&S, who had served as director of University Alumni Affairs
and previously worked in the College Alumni Office, announced his
retirement at the conclusion of the 2001–02 academic
year.
SOCIOLOGIST: Todd Gitlin, a sociologist who writes widely
about politics, culture and the media, has left NYU to join
Columbia’s sociology department as well as the Journalism
School. Gitlin, who was an undergraduate at Harvard, earned his
master’s degree at Michigan (where he was president of
Students for a Democratic Society) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He
told The New York Times that he was drawn to Columbia for
two reasons: the “top-of-the-line students” at Columbia
and Barnard and Columbia’s four-year-old Ph.D. program in
communications.
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