Both Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, are replacing their outgoing chief executives with people who come from their respective business schools.
- At Berkeley, Richard Lyons is the former head of the Haas School of Business. He replaces Carol Christ, a scholar of Victorian literature.
- At Stanford, Jonathan Levin, currently the dean of the Stanford business school, replaces Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned after allegations of misconduct related to the authenticity of images appearing in his published research. I here note that Levin is a nepo baby; his father was president of Yale for 20 years.
- An article about Tessier-Lavigne's resignation. What happened here was much, much worse than anything Claudine Gay did.
I can't help but thinking that these appointments won't be good for the humanities, which are under attack everywhere. I'm sure they will be able leaders in terms of fundraising, budgeting, and other responsibilities. I hope that they'll support the full breadth of academic programs at their respective institutions.
2 comments:
Carol Christ also plays the viola. I played chamber music with her back when she was president of Smith College.
I have a follow-up regarding Lyons, who is evidently a good supported of the liberal arts.
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