Arabic-L:GEN:Joseph Aoun President of Northeastern University

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1) Subject:Joseph Aoun President of Northeastern University

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Date: 01 Jun 2006
From:farwaneh at email.arizona.edu
Subject:Joseph Aoun President of Northeastern University

Hi Dil,
I wonder if you would like to post this announcement from the  
Linguist List
on Arabic-L. It is not often that an Arabic linguist becomes a  
university
president! Congratulations are in order.
Thanks. Samira


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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:55:45
From: Ann Sawyer < sawyer at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Appointment of Joseph Aoun to Northeastern University

Northeastern University's Board of Trustees announced the appointment  
of Joseph Aoun, Ph.D. as the University's seventh president and  
successor to Dr. Richard Freeland.
Dr. Aoun is an internationally known scholar in linguistics and  
brings over twenty years of higher education experience to  
Northeastern.   Raised in Lebanon, Aoun earned degrees at  
universities in Lebanon and France before coming to the United States  
to earn a doctorate in linguistics and philosophy at the  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He went to USC in 1982 as a  
professor and was elected president of the Academic Senate in 1993.   
After that, he took on several administrative positions before rising  
to dean.
As Dean of the University of Southern California's (USC) College of  
Letters, Arts and Sciences, Dr. Aoun is responsible for the  
management and oversight of the largest of USC's 19 academic schools,  
with more than 30 academic departments and programs, more than 10,000  
undergraduate students and more than 1,00 graduate students enrolled  
in somne 30 Ph.D. programs.  Under his leadership the College  
redefined its undergraduate education, strengthened graduate program  
and launched distinctive partnerships with educational and cultural  
organizations such as the Getty Research Institute, the Huntington  
Library, and the Shoah Foundation, which became part of the College  
in January 2006.  Dr Aoun will begin his tenure at Northeastern on  
August 15, 2006.
For full text on this and other announcements regarding this  
appointment, visit:
http://www.president.neu.edu/

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