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After Months of Search, Kent Fuchs Named as University Provost
October 17, 2008 - 10:18amKent Fuchs, dean of the College of Engineering, will be Cornell's 15th provost, President Skorton announced at this morning's State of the University Address. Fuchs has been dean since 2002, and his term as provost will start in January 2009.
"I look forward to serving Cornell's faculty, students and staff, and working to fulfill President Skorton's vision for our campus. We are blessed with wonderful leadership across the University, and I will devote all my energy and time to helping those leaders enhance Cornell's stature, scholarship and teaching,” Fuchs stated in a press release. He succeeds Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, who is now the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Did an extraterrestrial being create the earth and life on it?
I hope that the Cornell Sun staffers question the new provost on positions that may be informed by his religious beliefs. How (and when) was the universe created? Is personal revelation a basis for truth claims? How do regnant theories of evolution square with the idea that humanity was created in the image and likeness of a Christian god? What is the relationship between personal moral principle and secular law in a pluralistic society?
We deserve to know how our chief academic officer will be thinking as he leads us.
Great coverage of this by
Great coverage of this by the Sun. Keep up the good work, guys.