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NEW CHAIR: David J. Stern '66L is the new chair of the University's Board of Trustees. Stern, who has been a trustee since 1992 and most recently served as vice chair, succeeds Stephen Friedman '62L. Stern headed the second phase of the University's highly successful 10-year capital campaign that raised $2.8 billion. His day job is commissioner of the National Basketball Association, a post he has held since 1984. During that time, the league has enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity and global growth, expanding to 29 franchises and opening business offices around the world.

NEW COORDINATOR: Misumbo Byrd is the new program coordinator for the Office of Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Education. An experienced trainer, educator and program developer, Byrd has conducted workshops on violence against women and worked with survivors of domestic violence as well as offenders. Byrd envisions forming a support network among OSMPE, Alice! and the Rape Crisis Center. She also plans to focus on staff training as well as student services, and hopes to foster "constructive alliances between and among students and staff." Byrd is a New York native and most recently worked with Change Works, Inc.

NEW PROFESSOR: Rodolfo de la Garza, an expert on Latino political behavior and immigration, joined the political science department this fall as a full professor. In addition to his professorship, de la Garza is continuing his work with the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, a think tank based at California's Claremont Graduate University that conducts policy research on issues affecting Latino communities. De la Garza is vice president of the institute, which will now have affiliations with Columbia, Claremont and the University of Texas, where de la Garza most recently taught.

"Part of my work continues to be examining whether Latinos have a political agenda that is different from the so-called American agenda. And if so, does it undermine it or does it broaden it?" de la Garza said. At Columbia, he plans to form a center to study immigration and immigrants, which will be part of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy.

Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic magazine in 1998, de la Garza has been an election observer in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. He has co-authored Awash in the Mainstream: Latinos and the 1996 Election, Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy and Barrio Ballots: Latinos and the 1990 Elections.

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• Michigan's Bollinger to Succeed Rupp • Stiglitz Wins Nobel Prize Economics • Campus Bulletins • Transitions • In Lumine Tuo