From 1994 until 2002 she was Provost of Yale University, and was offered the post of Vice_Chancellor of Cambridge in 2003 following the end of Professor Alec Broers' seven year term.
Note
Alison Richard gained her Professorship at Yale, not Cambridge, and University statutes indicate that she is not strictly entitled to use the title in office. However this slight technicality is ignored and she is referred to and uses the title Professor.
See also
List of Vice_Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
External link
Vice_Chancellor's Office, University of Cambridge (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/v_c/)
Professor¹ Alison Fettes Richard (born in Kent, United Kingdom) is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Richard was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge and went on to have an academic career in Anthropology.
AlisonRichard gained her Professorship at Yale, not Cambridge, and University statutes indicate that she is not strictly entitled to use the title in office.
In becoming Yale's educational and budget czar, anthropologist AlisonRichard is moving from the calm of the laboratory to the turmoil of an office where almost all of the bucks eventually stop.
When Alison F. Richard, director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, was named Yale's provost last February, one of her comments struck a number of her colleagues as particularly apt.
As Richard takes up her responsibilities, she will be assisted by three deputy provosts and three associate provosts, each of whom handles a particular part of the University.
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