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Rupp replaces President Emeritus Michael I. Sovern, who announced his retirement last June after 13 years of presiding over the university...
...Sovern's announcement of his impending retirement prompted a six-month nationwide search for his successor, conducted by a search committee made up of students, faculty, administrators and trustees...
...Sovern praised the presidential selection in a statement yesterday. "I have no doubt he will win the hearts of all in the Columbia community," he said...
...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
Rupp, a Presbyterian minister who received his doctorate in divinity from Harvard, succeeds Michael I. Sovern as leader of the financially troubled institutions. Columbia last year faced a faculty challenge against Sovern's budgetary policies...