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AROUND THE QUADS
Stone stated that he is leaving Columbia because "change is a good thing professionally." The Boston Globe reported in August that Harvard was considering Stone as a successor to Paul Grogan, who held the position until July 1. Stone initially delayed accepting Harvard's offer because he felt obliged to focus exclusively on Columbia's escalated demand for public relations in the wake of the attacks on September 11. "I am impressed with Alan's breadth of experience, his grasp of the challenges inherent in this position and his steady demeanor," said Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who knew Stone from their work together in the Clinton administration. Virgil Renzulli, who served as assistant vice president under
Stone in the Office of Public Affairs, observed, "There are two
hallmarks of his work at Columbia: a better integration of
divisions [community, government, news] within the Office of Public
Affairs, and a better awareness of what strategies Columbia's
administration expects from the office." Stone brought Columbia's
Record and aspects of the University's Web site under the auspices
of his office and helped to realize Columbia's goal of a better
off-campus community relationship.
At Johns Hopkins, Neal managed the library system and oversaw the Center for Educational Resources, an instructional technology support facility similar to the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning; the Digital Knowledge Center, a research and development unit focused on digital libraries and emerging technologies; and the library entrepreneurial program, a network of e-commerce initiatives. In addition to being dean of the Johns Hopkins libraries (1998-2001), he also has served as Sheridan Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (1995-2001), dean of the University Libraries at Indiana University (1989-95) and in administrative positions at the libraries of Penn State, Notre Dame and CUNY. At
Columbia, Neal will oversee the operations of the University
library system — the 10th largest research library in North
America — and the University's Academic Information Systems.
He will manage library collections, shape the libraries' electronic
resource programs and continue to develop the libraries'
state-of-the-art networks.
The
magazine uses 16 categories in preparing its rankings, including
academic reputation, graduation rate, proportion of classes with
fewer than 20 or more than 50 students, selectivity, financial
resources and alumni giving. The categories are weighted and a
final score is produced. Columbia's reported alumni giving rate of 32 percent ranked
last among the eight Ivy League schools and 21st overall.
Of
special interest to investigators is how the event emerges as an
important turning point in people's lives. They also hope to
understand how narratives of the tragedy are shaped by, and shape
understandings of, immigration status, race, social class and
ethnicity.
The
play, which officially opens after two weeks of previews on
November 12 and runs through December 9, is a black comedy about
the abduction of a hitchhiker by a young couple in Alabama. Paquin
plays Lisa, a neglected and abused teenager whose older, ex-con
husband manipulates her into a world of sex and brutality. Paquin's
film credits include her Academy Award-winning role in the 1993
film The Piano and her more recent box-office success,
X-Men.
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MOVING ON: Vice President for
Public Affairs Alan Stone, who has served at Columbia for
six years, is leaving this month to take an equivalent job at
Harvard. Stone is the first high-ranking Columbia administrator to
announce his departure since President George Rupp announced last
spring that he would be retiring at the end of the 2001-02 academic
year.
