According to a university-wide email sent by Provost Steele and President Bollinger, Steele has stepped down as Provost to accept a position at Stanford University, where he will serve as Dean of the School of Education beginning this fall.
This marks the end of Steele's brief two-year tenure as Provost, which started in Sept. 2009 after an 18-year tenure at Stanford---primarily in the psychology department---prior to his arrival at Columbia.
No word yet on who might be selected to serve an interim Provost role. Check out the full email from Steele and Bollinger after the jump.
