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Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan
is stepping down from her post as of September 1, 2004,
and will become director of a new Stanford center on
constitutional law after a yearlong sabbatical. A nationally
known constitutional law scholar who has argued several
cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Sullivan came to
Stanford from Harvard in 1993 and was named dean in
1999. Former University president Gerhard Casper says
the new center is conceived as a memorial to law professor
Gerald Gunther (1927-2002), with whom Sullivan co-authored
the casebook Constitutional Law.
Stanford’s newest overseas studies program will
open this fall at Peking University, with Albert Dien,
professor emeritus of Chinese, as the faculty member
in residence. Some 30 students will take courses designed
specifically for the program, with preference given
to those who have studied Mandarin Chinese for at least
one year. The students will be housed in dorms with
other international students, who constitute about 1,800
of the total student body of 46,000. “It’s
a beautiful campus, laid out like many schools on the
East Coast,” says Irene Kennedy, associate director
of OSP, who visited Beijing in October and discussed
details of the program with university vice president
Min Weifang, MA ’82, MA ’86, PhD ’87.
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David Neuman, former University architect
and associate vice provost for planning, started his
new position as architect for the University of Virginia
in January. Neuman had been responsible for campus development
since 1989, including extensive retrofitting following
the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He oversaw construction
of the Science and Engineering Quadrangle and Clark
Center and restoration of Memorial Church, Cantor Arts
Center and Green Library. At UVA, Neuman will be responsible
for a 180-year-old academic complex that includes buildings
designed by Thomas Jefferson.
Gregory Boardman, associate vice president for student
affairs at Tulane University, has been named Stanford’s
dean of students and begins his new job on February
2. His responsibilities include oversight of Bechtel
International Center, the community centers, the Office
of Judicial Affairs, the Office of Student Activities
and Tresidder Union. He also will respond to student
concerns about such issues as the campus alcohol policy.
“What’s important here is that the students
have a say in any kind of policy review that affects
them,” Boardman said when he was selected in early
December. He replaces Marc Wais, who left Stanford for
NYU in March.
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