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1.08.2004

Search committee for MIT prez named, BU trustees 'face daunting task of reform' 

AP: "Two committees were appointed Wednesday to lead the search for a new president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Corporation Committee for the Presidency will be chaired by James A. Champy, chairman of consulting for Perot Systems Corp. of Boston, while a faculty advisory committee will be chaired by Jerome I. Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning physics professor..."

And the BU trustees "face the daunting task of reform," according to the Boston Globe's headline.

An interesting note in the article, down by the bottom graphs: "Another item the board of trustees may consider at Thursday's meeting is whether to remove the word interim from the title of interim president Aram Chobanian, the former dean of the medical school. Chobanian, 74, does not plan to stay in the post permanently, but some believe that he would have more authority to do his job without the interim label, the source close to trustees said..."

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