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Davis Accepts HASS Post

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Davis Accepts HASS Post

Bette Davis is now serving as Coordinator of the HASS Information 
Office, Professor Philip S. Khoury, acting dean of the School of 
Humanities and Social Science, has announced. She replaces Ikey Spear, 
who served in the post for seven years.

The coordinator's responsibility includes providing guidance and support 
to undergraduates, overseeing the HASS component of the General 
Institute Requirement, serving as a resource person for the Committees 
on HASS-distribution, the HASS Minor and the Course XXI Major, compiling 
and publishing the bi-annual HASS Guide and acting as liaison between 
the school and other MIT schools and departments.

In announcing her appointment, Dean Khoury noted that Ms. Davis brings 
to the position 15 years of experience in higher education 
administration, teaching and international exchange. From 1980 to 1989 
she served as director of the Office of International Exchange at the 
University of Massachusetts-Boston, and more recently she was a 
consultant to the International Visitors Office at MIT.

She received a BS in English in 1965 from South Dakota State University, 
where she was class valedictorian; studied for a year at the University 
of Freiburg in Germany on a fellowship; received an MA in German 
Language and Literature from the University of Washington in 1967, and 
an EdD in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard in 
1983.