September 12, 2008

Yale Gets New Provost; Familiar Face Shows Up at American U.; Chapel Hill Boots Up a Research Team; San Diego State Plays Money Ball

By RICHARD BYRNE and JOSH FISCHMAN

EVOLVING DOOR: Yale University has elevated the dean of Yale College, Peter Salovey, to the vacant post of university provost. He will assume the new role on October 1, replacing Andrew Hamilton, who left Yale to become vice chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Mr. Salovey, who is also a professor of psychology, arrived at Yale in 1986. He has a distinguished record as both a scholar (more than 300 publications) and as an administrator, including a tenure as deputy director of the