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Tufts prof to replace Altman as Heller dean
by Matthew Brock
News | 12/4/07
Posted online at 10:51 PM EST on 12/3/07
/ Last updated at 7:00 PM EST on 12/3/07
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management hired Lisa Lynch, Ph.D., a former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, as its new dean for next academic year. Lynch will replace current dean Stuart Altman.
Lynch, the William T. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will enter her new position July 1, 2008, Provost Marty Krauss said. She served as Tufts' academic dean from 2001 to 2004, served at the Department of Labor from 1995 to 1997 and also held faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University and the University of Bristol.
Altman, who was named one of the 100 most powerful people in healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine this year, took over as interim Heller Dean in September 2005 and was named full Dean in January 2006. The administration, however, has always considered him to be an interim Dean and expected to hire someone permanent for the position, Krauss said. Out of all of the applications Brandeis received for the position, "[Lynch] was the most exciting candidate," Krauss said. "We are thrilled that she is coming to Brandeis," she added.
Lynch said she is eager to come to Brandeis. "As a scholar/practitioner, most of my academic career has been spent in interdisciplinary departments where what binds researchers together is not a common discipline but rather a shared interest in questions and problems of public policy interest," she said. "The fact that Brandeis emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge and the solution of real-life problems is a big part of why I accepted this position."
Lynch said she wasn't looking for a job at the time that she was offered this position, but felt a strong connection with the social policy mission and goals of the Heller School. "To have an opportunity to work as the Dean of such an institution was something that I could not pass up," she said.
Lynch, the William T. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will enter her new position July 1, 2008, Provost Marty Krauss said. She served as Tufts' academic dean from 2001 to 2004, served at the Department of Labor from 1995 to 1997 and also held faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University and the University of Bristol.
Altman, who was named one of the 100 most powerful people in healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine this year, took over as interim Heller Dean in September 2005 and was named full Dean in January 2006. The administration, however, has always considered him to be an interim Dean and expected to hire someone permanent for the position, Krauss said. Out of all of the applications Brandeis received for the position, "[Lynch] was the most exciting candidate," Krauss said. "We are thrilled that she is coming to Brandeis," she added.
Lynch said she is eager to come to Brandeis. "As a scholar/practitioner, most of my academic career has been spent in interdisciplinary departments where what binds researchers together is not a common discipline but rather a shared interest in questions and problems of public policy interest," she said. "The fact that Brandeis emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge and the solution of real-life problems is a big part of why I accepted this position."
Lynch said she wasn't looking for a job at the time that she was offered this position, but felt a strong connection with the social policy mission and goals of the Heller School. "To have an opportunity to work as the Dean of such an institution was something that I could not pass up," she said.
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David Zukerman '62
posted 12/12/07 @ 11:46 AM EST
Finally, so far as I am aware, turnabout after some thirty years or so, when
Tufts got John P. Roche from Brandeis.
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