Suffolk University names new provost
By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff
Suffolk University today named Barry Brown, a longtime faculty member at Suffolk Law School, as its new provost, and Janice C. Griffith, former dean of Georgia State University College of Law, as its vice president for academic affairs.
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The two appointments will take effect immediately, university officials said.
Brown, a Harvard Law School graduate who has taught at Suffolk since 1976, is a widely published scholar who founded and advises the law school's Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.
"Professor Brown has been a superb teacher and has created exceptional programming as director of the Law School’s concentration in health and biomedical law," Suffolk University President David J. Sargent said in a statement. "And Dean Griffith, in emphasizing contributions to public policy as she led Georgia State University College of Law, has shown an intrinsic understanding of the Suffolk University spirit of service."
A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Griffith is an expert on state and local government law. At Georgia State, she oversaw the creation of two interdisciplinary centers.
Suffolk is poised to begin work on an expansion plan after reaching a historic accord with the leading Beacon Hill neighborhood group. Under the deal, the university agreed not to build on the bulk of Beacon Hill and to freeze its enrollment for the next decade.
The university plans to build a 12-story dormitory and studio theater on the site of the historic Modern Theatre on Washington Street, and convert a building on Somerset Street into a 10-story academic building.
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