President Prager Resigns

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Author: Lilliane Ballesteros

In a November 19 e-mail to the Occidental community, Susan Prager announced her resignation as College President, effective on January 1, 2008. In her e-mail, President Prager cited an incompatible relationship as a reason for her decision to leave. “In a college or university that has a shared governance structure like Occidental, it is important that the President, Chair of the Board, senior administrators and the faculty leadership have complementary leadership styles and a strong working relationship. It would not be in the long-term interests of Occidental for me to continue in my role as president without that strong compatibility,” she said in her e-mail.

According to a subsequent e-mail sent to the Oxy community by Chair of the Board of Trustees Dennis A. Collins, Prager will “be taking up her tenured faculty position in [Occidental’s] history department in the second semester of 2008-2009.” Until then, Prager will return to UCLA, where she is Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus.

The Board of Trustees will hold a special faculty meeting on November 20 at 11:30 a.m. in Lower Herrick, followed by a campus-wide meeting in Thorne Hall at 1 p.m. The Board will discuss future plans, including the appointment of an interim President and plans to establish a presidential search committee. According to Collins, “The new president will take up his/her duties no later than July 1, 2009.”

Full coverage of President Prager’s resignation to come.

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