Claremont Graduate University
Announces Deborah A. Freund as President

Professor Deborah A. Freund has been appointed CGU’s 15th president by the university’s Board of Trustees. Freund will be the first woman to serve as president of the university.

Freund was vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and provost at Syracuse University from 1999-2006, and has held the title of distinguished professor of public administration and economics from Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs since 2004. In addition to her faculty position at the Maxwell School, she is also a senior research associate at the school’s Center for Policy Research. Freund will be completing her responsibilities at Syracuse over the next few months and will formally take office this fall. Current Interim President Joseph C. Hough will continue until Freund’s arrival.

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