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NYU Hires Swarthmore's President to Run New Campus in Abu Dhabi

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog

September 29, 2008

Alfred H. Bloom, who has led Swarthmore since 1991, is to take over as vice chancellor of New York University's new campus in Abu Dahbi before next August. In the interim, he will serve as a consultant on the project. The campus is scheduled to enroll its first students in 2010, although NYU's president, John E. Sexton, has already started teaching a course at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, a precursor to the branch campus in the United Arab Emirates.