Wharton, Law School deans resign
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Colin Diver will continue to teach and research full time at the Penn Law School. Colin Diver felt his time as dean of the Law School had simply come to an appropriate end. After nearly a decade at the school’s helm, the administrative-law and public-policy scholar said yesterday that he would step down from his post at the end of the current academic year, which expires June 30, 1999. He intends to stay at Penn to teach and research at the Law School. The process of finding a replacement will begin soon, University officials said. During his tenure, Diver, 54, has increased the faculty size by one-third, expanded the school’s facilities and academic support services and raised more than $100 million for the school’s activities and endowment. “The decision was made more at an emotional level than a rational level, as these decisions often are,” he said. “In the end, it felt like I was coming to the end of a cycle.” He arrived at the University in 1989 after being lured away from the same position at the Boston University School of Law. In his letter of resignation, Diver wrote that with the approaching 150th anniversary of the school’s founding and the 10th anniversary of his own appointment, “a new cycle will begin” and “new challenges will call forth new energy and new ideas.” |