Carol L. Folt, the recently departed chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be the next president of USC, a choice underscoring the university’s desire to turn the page on myriad scandals that have defined it in recent years.
The USC job is a return trip to California for Folt. An environmental scientist, she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UC Santa Barbara and a doctorate from UC Davis. She joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1983 and rose to become provost and interim president before leaving for North Carolina.
In USC, Folt is returning to a private institution governed not by political appointees, but by some of the Pacific Rim’s most wealthy and powerful people. USC’s board members include real estate moguls, Hollywood insiders and industrial titans from China and India. With its 47,000 students, USC is significantly larger than UNC, which has an enrollment of about 30,000, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Folt’s appointment comes as USC is grappling with the latest in a series of scandals: the federal charges of college admissions cheating in which the university played a central role.half stand accused of conspiring to bribe their way into USC. Other universities, including Georgetown, Stanford, the University of San Diego and Yale, were also ensnared in the criminal enterprise run by consultant William “Rick” Singer, but the misconduct involving USC dwarfs all other schools.
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