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Chemistry Professor John Hutchinson became Rice's second dean of £ undergraduates July l, the same day that former Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman started work as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. Hutchinson was selected by a 17-member search committee headed J} by Interim Dean of Humanities Allen Matusow. The committee included two undergraduates and one graduate student. i Matusow said that the committee c wrote the job description for the posif tion and advertised for the position, . • and then collected material from apL plicants, conducted interviews and n recommended an unranked list of final candidates to the president and provost. These candidates were then j 'erviewed by a variety of constitu;es and the process ended when ;he president made a selection, Ma3 n tusow said. He said that not all of the c o candidates recommended were from jn, within Rice, but could not say who ti0 the others were. v,;/ "Forman did an excellent job % and we were looking for someone vvho could build on what Robin Jid," Matusow said. "That meant oeing able to establish rapport with [ and represent their inter ests and at the same time provide leadership in the educational mis£ sion of the university." I.eebron said he spoke to each canp]ei didate himself, and there were a num >• ber of factors in Hutchinson's selection. "[Hutchinson has] a deep and genuine commitment to undergraduOsee HUTCH, page 7 W " 0 " ' w j ' i j m u j m k 1