Ex-Law School Dean Takes Dartmouth Post
WESTWOOD — Susan Westerberg Prager, the longtime dean of UCLA law school and a finalist last year to become UCLA’s chancellor, has accepted a position of provost at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
Prager, 55, will begin Feb. 1 as provost, which is a college’s chief academic officer and often a springboard to become a college president. Dartmouth, a member of the Ivy League, has 4,300 undergraduates and 1,200 graduate students.
Prager, who grew up in Elk Grove, Calif., earned an undergraduate degree from Stanford and a law degree from UCLA in 1971. She practiced law for a year before joining the UCLA law school faculty.
In 1982, she was named law school dean and held that position until earlier this year. When Prager stepped down in June, constitutional law professor Jonathan Varat took the reins as dean.
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