October 24, 2003

Rhodes Trust's Chief Quits

By FRANCIS X. ROCCA

The chief administrator of the Rhodes Trust, which runs the prestigious, century-old Rhodes Scholarships, is leaving for another job. John Rowett, warden of Rhodes House since 1999, will quit that job at the end of this academic year to become secretary general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

In a letter to the Rhodes trustees last May, a group of scholars complained that Mr. Rowett was rarely available for meetings and that his allocation of increasingly limited