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Phillip L. Clay considered for president of UMass system

Phillip L. Clay considered for president of UMass system

Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75, who will be stepping down as Chancellor this spring, is a candidate for president of the University of Massachusetts system (UMass), according to the Boston Globe. A UMass presidential search committee will conduct a round of interviews with fewer than six candidates on Jan. 13, the Globe reported last Tuesday. Clay remains under consideration after a set of first-round interviews.

When Clay announced he was stepping down last November, he told the MIT community that he planned to go on sabbatical for a year before returning to MIT as a professor. The current UMass president, Jack Wilson, will leave his post on June 30. Clay declined to comment on this story.

—Jessica Pourian