From Provost to Education Dean

Claude Steele, who left Stanford University to become provost of Columbia University two years ago, is returning to the Farm. Steele will become dean of Stanford's influential School of Education. While at Stanford, Steele's work in social psychology led to positions as Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.