Dean of Faculty David Bell will be leaving Hopkins this summer in order to take a position at Princeton University.
Bell's departure makes him the second dean planning to leave Hopkins this year, after it was announced last month that Krieger Dean Adam Falk will become the president of Williams College.
The position at Princeton was "too good to pass up," Bell said.
Bell also serves as a professor in the History department. The University plans to hire two professors to fill his role in the department by July 2010.
"Bell's departure, though it hurts, will not cripple the Department" said William Rowe, chair of the history department. "We intend to remain a force nationally in early modern European history."
As dean of faculty, Bell is responsible for recruitment, promotion, development, mentoring and tenure for Hopkins professors.
Bell said that the Krieger school is in "very good shape."
"We are losing David Bell's great contributions, but bear in mind that we lose scholars from time-to-time because we have such an outstanding History Department," History Professor Louis Galambos said. "If we were second-rate, we wouldn't have this problem."
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