Show McMurrin Takes Reigns Of New Veep Sterling W. McMurrin will assume the position of academic vice president of the University this replacing Homer G. who has been appointed president of Arizona State McMURRIN will be responsible for the administration's academic His work will include the appointment of faculty members and the setting up of the University He will deal directly with the Deans' Council and other faculty In a statement to incoming McMurrin said that he would urge new students to recognize that attending a university is becoming a highly competitive and full-time Those who would he should keep the main purposes of attending college foremost in their These he declared are study and the achieving of knowledge and Everything else should be secondary in importance as far attending a university is McMurrin expressed high regard for Durham for his outstanding service to the Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences since McMurrin has also a professor in the philosophy Prior to coming to he was an as professor of philosophy at the University of He served the U.S. State Department in as an advisor to the University of Teheran in Iran under the International Exchange Services En route to and from McMurrin traveled extensively in the Near and the Orient The author of many monographs an journal articles on and McMurrin has for several years written the article philosophy for the Book of the He is co-author of two temporary published in and of published in THE NEW vice president received and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in He did post-doctoral study in philosophy at Columbia University and Princeton University and in religion at Union Theological Seminary in New He has received membership and recognition in many scholastic and academic honorary |