June 14, 2002

Colgate U.'s Next President to Leave Yale After Just One Year; Deep-Sea Explorer Docks at U. of Rhode Island; Gates to Stay at Harvard, for Now

By PIPER FOGG

THE RIGHT SPOT: "I have long wanted to be the president of a liberal-arts college," says Rebecca S. Chopp. "There has never in my mind been just the right fit." Until now. Ms. Chopp, 50, who is finishing her first -- and last -- year as dean of the Yale University Divinity School, will become the first female president of Colgate University on July 1.

Ms. Chopp is a former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University, where she spent 15 years