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Monday, November 16, 1998

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dean new Dartmouth provost

ADMINISTRATION: Susan Prager chosen to lead

nation’s ninth-oldest institution of higher learning

By Kathryn Combs

Daily Bruin Senior Staff

Friday, former UCLA Law School Dean Susan Westerberg Prager was
named provost of Dartmouth College.

Prager, who left UCLA last June after a 16-year stint as dean,
was well-known for leading fundraising efforts for additions to the
Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library at UCLA – one of the top 20
libraries in the country.

"As a legal scholar, dedicated teacher and bold academic leader,
Susan Westerberg Prager brings to Dartmouth the right combination
of experience and commitment," said Dartmouth president James
Wright Friday.

"She will have an opportunity to put her vision and leadership
skills to work at an important time in the life of this
institution," he added.

Scheduled to become provost effective Feb. 1, 1999, Prager will
become Dartmouth’s chief academic officer. As a result, she will
oversee Dartmouth’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Amos Tuck
School of Business Administration, the Thayer School of Engineering
and the Dartmouth Medical School.

"I am deeply honored to have this opportunity to work with a
faculty so renowned for its dedication to teaching and excellence
in research," Prager said, upon learning of her appointment.

"I am also excited by the prospect of working with some of the
nation’s most talented and energetic students," she added.

Prager will be filling a position vacated Aug. 1 by Dartmouth’s
current president, James Wright.

Prager is a noted champion of diversity and one of the
longest-serving deans in the country.

"Diversity is very important in a discipline where the
discipline is about what the law ought to look like," said Prager
in a previous interview.

She received her B.A. and M.A. at Stanford, and her law degree
from UCLA in 1972, where she was editor in chief of the UCLA Law
Review. One year later, she was appointed to the UCLA faculty and
was made a professor in in 1977.

In addition, Prager has served for 14 years as a trustee of
Stanford University, and has been director of the Law School
Admissions Council, the body responsible administering and scoring
the LSAT.

Her appointment has not come as a surprise to UCLA
officials.

"She is a magnificent academic leader and (I’m) very pleased for
Dartmouth that they have been able to attract her to that cold
climate," said Stephen Yeazell, a professor of law at UCLA.

Prager noted that the excellent faculty at Dartmouth was part of
her attraction to the university.

"I come to Dartmouth attracted by many of its qualities,
including the faculty’s achievements in interdisciplinary teaching
and research," she said.

"Without question, Dartmouth is characterized by a spirit of
innovation in a warm and caring academic community," Prager said,
of the ninth oldest university in the nation.UCLA Law School

Former UCLA leader Susan Prager will soon be provost at
Dartmouth.

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