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Updated: Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 3:03pm

MARY MILLER APPOINTED DEAN AT FRIDAY CEREMONY

Saybrook Master to begin deanship Dec. 1

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Paul Needham and Courtney Pannell
Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Friday, October 10, 2008
Mary E. Miller GRD '81, the Sterling Professor of the History of Art and master of Saybrook College, was named the next dean of Yale College in a ceremony this afternoon.
#1 By Truth Detector (Unregistered User) 5:46pm on October 10, 2008

Ahh . . . three white guys and one white female. Not a paradigm of a diverse administration reflecting the society at large, is it?

#2 By SY '08 Alum (Unregistered User) 8:48pm on October 10, 2008

This is great news for Yale. Master Miller was a terrific leader of Saybrook; she will no doubt be the same for all the College.

#3 By Wow (Unregistered User) 9:16pm on October 10, 2008

Mary Miller is incredible.

#4 By levin fails (Unregistered User) 11:16pm on October 10, 2008

Yes, history has been written. Levin was not serious about his commitment to diversity. What a shame.

#5 By excuse me? (Unregistered User) 11:59pm on October 10, 2008

Isn't it significant that Levin has appointed the first female Dean? Diversity is not all about race...

#6 By SY 10 (Unregistered User) 1:05am on October 11, 2008

Mary Miller is amazing!!!!

#7 By SY '07 (Unregistered User) 3:53am on October 11, 2008

Mary Miller was a horrible, nonchalant, and negligent master. She will be an even worse dean. What a poor choice.

#8 By Mackinder (Unregistered User) 9:31am on October 13, 2008

Truth Detector - Your anti-meritocratic attitude, widely shared in the highest reaches of academia (cf. Miller's own quote), is hugely responsible for the extent to which that realm is a laughingstock and a mediocrity.

#9 By Y11 (Unregistered User) 1:50pm on October 13, 2008

If those three white guys and one white female are, as I believe them to be, the most qualified... so be it. It would be one thing if an obviously superior candidate that wasn't white was passed up, but that is not the case. Get over it.

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Mary Miller, who was named dean of Yale College today, poses at her reception Friday afternoon with Provost Peter Salovey, President Richard Levin and Graduate School Dean Jon Butler.
Jeff Kaiser/Contributing Photographer
Mary Miller, who was named dean of Yale College today, poses at her reception Friday afternoon with Provost Peter Salovey, President Richard Levin and Graduate School Dean Jon Butler.

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