January 5, 2001

U. of Florida Makes Interim President Permanent

After a 10-month search failed to turn up anyone better, Charles E. Young, the interim president of the University of Florida, signed a contract last month to stay at the institution permanently.

The announcement marked the official end of a protracted search that started with the resignation of John V. Lombardi, in August 1999, and crumbled in the spring of 2000, when all six finalists for the job dropped out and the search committee was disbanded. In between, faculty members at the

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