Spencer Foundation Gets New Leader

Michael S. McPherson, president of Macalester College, has announced that he will leave the liberal-arts college in May to become president of the Spencer Foundation, a major financial supporter of educational research.

He will succeed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, who left this year to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

"The opportunity to provide leadership in efforts to improve our understanding of education is one that I simply could not pass up," Mr.

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