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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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