August 15, 2008

Provost Goes From Philly to Beantown; Business-School Association Picks Pioneer for Asia; RIT Opens Campus in Dubai

By PAULA WASLEY, KATHERINE MANGAN, and RICHARD BYRNE

BOUND FOR BOSTON: Last month Stephen W. Director traded his position as provost at Drexel University for the title of provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University.

Mr. Director, considered a pioneer in the field of computer-aided electronics engineering, says he was lured from the fast-expanding Philly institution to another private urban research university in full ramp-up mode, but in Boston, by the chance to work with President Joseph E. Aoun in

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