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5.01.2004

BU Provost Off To WPI 

Boston Globe:

Boston University provost Dennis Berkey, a 30-year veteran of the school who was a finalist for its presidency last year, is leaving June 30 to become president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

He is the second top BU administrator to announce his departure this month. Law School dean Ronald Cass, who had also been a finalist for president, recently resigned his post to return to scholarship. BU currently has an interim president...
It should be noted that the Daily Free Press, the student newspaper at BU, had it first, on Wednesday.

The Globe reports that the other candidates were: "Jack M. Wilson was also a finalist for the WPI job, but accepted the presidency of the University of Massachusetts last month. The other finalists were Robert Kennedy, executive vice president and provost at the University of Maine, and Allen L. Soyster, dean of Northeastern's College of Engineering, said search committee head David K. Heebner..."

MORE: BUWatch has some responses from faculty and alums.

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