June 20, 2008

U. of Ottawa Hires 'Nontraditional' President; New Undergraduate College at Rutgers U. Appoints First Dean; Simmons Professor Will Lead Health-Administration Group

By KAREN BIRCHARD, EUGENE MCCORMACK, and AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

BED HEAD: The University of Ottawa has broken with tradition by naming a president from outside academe. Allan Rock, a lawyer who is a former cabinet minister and ambassador to the United Nations, takes over from Gilles Patry on July 15.

Ottawa is North America's largest bilingual university, with more than 36,000 students and 8,000 faculty and staff members. Mr. Rock, who was a fiery student-government president on the campus 39 years ago, is only the second Anglophone to head the

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