A Mediator Becomes the Tucker Dean

In August the College named conflict manager Scott Brown'78 as the new dean of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation. He will oversee the volunteer and religious aspects of the campus at a time when student voluntarism continues to grow and as religious backgrounds of undergraduates diversify. Brown said he will work to "nurture moral intelligence and societal responsibility to develop the leaders of our future."

The first Tucker dean without a ministerial background, Brown headed the Conflict Management Group, a nonprofit teaching and consulting company that trains governments, colleges, and nonprofits. He has also directed a solar-power company and worked with the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. Brown has studied American-Soviet relations, monitored ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union, and developed an intervention program with inner-city gangs. A 1982 Harvard law grad, he is co-author of the 1988 book Getting Together: Building Relationships As You Negotiate. This magazine named him a "Face to Watch" in 1993.

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