Harvard U. Names Its 26th President
From Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Neil Rudenstine, a former Princeton administrator and the executive vice president of a wealthy philanthropic foundation, was named Sunday as the 26th president of Harvard University.
Rudenstine will replace Derek C. Bok, who is retiring in June after 20 years as president of the 17,500-student Ivy League school.
Since 1988, Rudenstine has been executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rudenstine, 56, who lives in Princeton, N.J., spent 20 years as an English professor and administrator at Princeton.
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