Who's Who at the University of Pennsylvania

Stanley Chodorow, University Provost Before coming to Penn, Chodorow was an associate vice chancellor and dean of arts and humanities at the University of California at San Diego. At the University, Chodorow has been intimately involved in implementing Rodin's Agenda for Excellence. His main focus has been the 21st Century Project on the Undergraduate Experience and the development of "virtual college" living-learning programs that may be prototypes for an eventual residential college system at the University. Despite the fact that he's only been in office two years, Chodorow has been no stranger to campus controversy. Student leaders criticized him throughout the drafting of a new juidical charter and code of academic integrity in 1995 and 1996, saying that he wanted to scrap mediation and disciplinary strategies favored by a student committee for procedures more favorable to faculty members' wishes. Chodorow has also been jeered by the lesbian, gay and bisexual community for not taking action to remove the University's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program from campus. Because the military does not permit openly homosexual people to serve, many people feel the ROTC program violates the University's own non-discrimination policy. After negotiating with the Defense Department for almost two years, in hopes of reaching an "arm's length" agreement that would permit Penn students to participate in ROTC at another campus in the Philadelphia area, Chodorow broke off talks in April because of a lack of progress. Chodorow's office oversees many key departments and programs, including graduate education, information systems and computing, research, international programs, the University's libraries and the division of University Life. Chodorow himself is a noted medieval legal historian, who enjoys bicycling and gourmet cooking in his spare time. Last spring, he taught an undergraduate honors seminar in the history department for the first time at Penn. The title of the course was the "Origins of Constitutionalism."

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