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AROUND THE QUADS

TRANSITIONS

Jackson

On September 18, Barzun Professor of History and Social Science Ken Jackson announced that he will step down as president of the New-York Historical Society to return to full-time teaching and research at Columbia. “I love Columbia, and I want to come back,” Jackson told Spectator.

At Columbia, Jackson has taught an average of one class each semester during his three-year term as the president of the NYHS, which ends on May 1. He is most famous for his “History of the City of New York” course, which features a midnight bicycle tour of the city.

Feldberg

Meyer Feldberg will step down as dean of the Business School on June 30, ending a 15-year tenure during which the school reasserted its place among the nation’s elite business schools. Under Feldberg’s leadership, applications to the Business School tripled, fund raising increased dramatically, the Executive M.B.A. programs expanded internationally, the curriculum was revamped and more than 90 faculty members were hired — including Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Feldberg, 61, plans to join the Business School’s faculty full-time as the head of the Sanford Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics.

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