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Incoming Provost Claude Steele brings practical outlook to post

Claude Steele is a very practical man. University President Lee Bollinger announced that Steele would be the University’s next provost, or chief academic officer, in an e-mail to Columbians earlier this month. In this post, Steele’s characteristic calmness and practicality may help as he tries to navigate Columbia’s sprawling bureaucracy in a time when the University is tightening resources.

By Joy Resmovits • May 20, 2009 at 12:51 AM


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