March 17, 2006

Former Law Dean to Head Occidental College; Yale Philosophy Dept. Grows by 5

By PIPER FOGG and JOHN GRAVOIS

ACROSS TOWN: After several years on the market for a top administrative job, Susan Westerberg Prager has found a spot in her own backyard. Ms. Prager, a professor and former dean of the law school at the University of California at Los Angeles, will stay in the city she loves but head to Occidental College in July as its first female president.

Ms. Prager, one of the country's longest-serving law-school deans — she spent 16 years running the school at UCLA — was a

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