The Colonial Academic Alliance will welcome two new member to its Provosts' Council as of July 1, 2009.
At the University of Delaware, Dan Rich, provost since 2001 and a member of the University's faculty since 1970, announced at the March 9 meeting of the Faculty Senate that he will resign as provost, effective June 30. Rich will return to the faculty as University Professor of Public Policy in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy.
Succeeding him as provost will be Tom Apple, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Delaware since 2005. A Delaware alumnus, Apple earned his doctorate in physical chemistry at UD in 1982, after completing his bachelor's degree in biology at Pennsylvania State University in 1976.
Michael R. Halleran, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, has been named the College of William & Mary’s fifth provost.
A distinguished scholar of classical studies and a highly successful administrator and fundraiser at both public and private institutions, Halleran comes to William & Mary after serving the past four years as dean of the University of Miami’s largest academic division. Pending approval by the William & Mary Board of Visitors in April, Halleran will begin his new post on July 1, 2009. He succeeds P. Geoffrey Feiss, who will retire June 30.
