USC Provost Announces His Plan to Step Down Next Year
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USC Provost Lloyd Armstrong Jr., a physicist-turned-administrator who has held the school’s No. 2 post since 1993, has announced that he will retire from his current position next summer.
He plans to take a one-year sabbatical and then return as a professor, probably affiliated with the university’s Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis.
With USC President Steven B. Sample, Armstrong, 64, has presided over a steady rise in the university’s academic rankings since the early 1990s.
Sample has set up an advisory committee of USC faculty to help find a new provost.
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