Oxford Names Its First Female Vice Chancellor

After nearly 800 years, the University of Oxford has named its first female vice chancellor, reports The Telegraph. Louise Richardson, currently the principal of Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, will succeed Andrew Hamilton as Oxford’s vice chancellor, a position equivalent to a university president in the United States. Mr. Hamilton announced in March that he would become the next president of New York University. Ms. Richardson, a noted scholar of terrorism and security studies, was previously executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, at Harvard University.

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The University of Oxford has nominated its first female chancellor since records began in 1230 when Elyas de Daneis held the post. Professor Louise Richardson, current principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St Andrews, will succeed Professor Andrew Hamilton, who has held the role since 2009, at the beginning of next year.

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