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FILE - This May 11, 2015 file photo shows Carol L. Folt, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt, at the announcement of a partnership with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to accelerate the search for an HIV cure. The University of Southern California has announced a new president to usher in "a new era." The university said Wednesday, March 20, 2019 that Carol Folt will become the university's 12th president. The announcement comes a week after news broke of a massive college bribery scandal involving USC and other universities across the country. (Christine T. Nguyen/The Herald-Sun via AP, File)

Former Dartmouth administrator is next USC president

by Moriah Balingit The Washington Post, Nick Anderson The Washington Post, and Susan Svrluga The Washington PostMarch 21, 2019

LOS ANGELES — A former professor, dean of the faculty, provost and interim president at Dartmouth College was named president of the University of Southern California on Wednesday as USC seeks to move past scandals that have cast a shadow over its…

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017, file photo, police stand by a Confederate monument nicknamed "Silent Sam" at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt says the school will remove the pedestal where the statue stood until protesters tore it down. Folt also announced to the campus Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, that she will step down at the end of the school year. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Former Dartmouth Provost Steps Down at UNC Over Confederate Statue

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostJanuary 15, 2019

FILE - In this May 12, 2017 file photo, University of Southern California President C.L. Max Nikias attends the University of Southern California's Commencement Ceremony at Alumni Park in Los Angeles. The University of Southern California's embattled president has resigned in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving a school gynecologist. The USC Board of Trustees says Nikias agreed Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, to step down immediately, although he'll become president emeritus and a life trustee. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

USC President Out In Wake of Scandal

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostAugust 8, 2018

Democrats Set to Offer Debt-Free College Plan

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostJuly 24, 2018

Colleges Assure Students Gun Protests Acceptable

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostFebruary 26, 2018

Lawrence Bacow speaks after being introduced Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass., as the 29th president of Harvard University. Bacow, former president of Tufts University and a leader-in-residence at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, assumes the office July 1. He will succeed Drew Faust, 70, who has served in the post for more than a decade as Harvard's first female president. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Harvard Picks Bacow, Who Led Tufts U.

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostFebruary 12, 2018

The view from Thomas Aquinas College last week in Santa Paula, California, where a wildfire erupted half a mile from campus. MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College

Tiny College Mostly Escapes Colossal Fires

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostDecember 18, 2017

New Students at Dartmouth, Other Colleges Write to U-Va.

by Susan Svrluga The Washington PostAugust 16, 2017

CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO BETSY, NOT BESTY - United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivers a commencement speech to graduates at Bethune-Cookman University, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Students Object to Betsy DeVos as Commencement Speaker

by Susan Svrluga The Washington Post, and Lori Rozsa The Washington PostMay 10, 2017

Berkeley Reverses Decision to Cancel Coulter Speech

by William Wan The Washington Post, and Susan Svrluga The Washington PostApril 20, 2017