Daily Pennsylvanian (Univ. of PA)
New president chosen over impressive list of candidates
"An e-mail containing a shortlist of final candidates for the Penn presidency and rumors of an imminent announcement were circulating throughout the University administration yesterday, according to several Penn officials.
The list included National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Nancy Cantor, Radcliffe at Harvard University Dean Drew Faust and Princeton Provost Amy Gutmann.
Gutmann's selection as the Board of Trustees' nomination for president confirmed one of these rumors...
.. Rice, who was rumored to be the favorite in Penn's search, gained university experience at Stanford, where she served as a political science professor. She eventually became the university's provost in 1993 -- a position she held for six years..."