King’s College names Dr. George Cooper interim president
Posted Jul 9, 2012 01:09:02 PM.
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The University of King’s College has selected Dr. George Cooper as its interim president.
His appointment will be for two years to give the university time to find a replacement for Dr. Anne Leavitt, who resigned on June 21st.
Dr. Cooper holds an honorary doctorate from King’s and is counsel at the Atlantic Canadian law firm of McInnes Cooper and the immediate past chair of its board of directors.
He’s a Rhodes Scholar, the managing trustee of the Killam Educational Trust, and a former chair of the Canada/US Fulbright Scholarship Foundation.
Dr. Cooper is also a former Progressive Conservative MP, elected to parliament in Halifax in 1979.
In a release, board of governors chair, Dr. John Hamm says, “George Cooper brings to the role of interim president his profile as a respected leader in his profession and within the wider community, an outstanding track record as an administrator and fund raiser, and his great commitment to education and to King’s.”
