Changing of the Guard at Oxford Brings Former Yale Provost to the Fore

Andrew Hamilton, a former provost of Yale University, was formally installed today as the 271st vice chancellor of the University of Oxford. In his final formal oration to the university, the departing vice chancellor, John Hood, spoke frankly of the challenges he had faced, of the “genuinely worrying” financial climate, of the coming government review of tuition caps at English universities, and of the fact that, unlike other institutions, Oxford had not resorted to shifting teaching burdens to graduate students or increasing the percentage of foreign undergraduates, whose tuition is not subject to the government-imposed limit.