紐約大學新校長將來自牛津大學

New York University, which has become known for its global aspirations as much as its enviable home in Greenwich Village, named the head of one of the world’s most prestigious universities as its 16th president on Wednesday.

紐約大學着眼全球的雄心壯志與它在格林尼治村令人稱羨的本部校園名氣相當。該校於本週三任命了自己的第16屆校長，此人目前在全世界聲望最高的一所大學中擔任高層。

When the new president, Andrew Hamilton, leaves his post at Oxford University to join N.Y.U. in January, he will be walking into a set of complex challenges. He will be leading a university with aggressive expansion plans, both internationally and in New York, where those plans are tied up in a court battle.

新任校長安德魯·漢密爾頓(Andrew Hamilton)將於明年1月份從牛津大學離職，加入紐約大學的領導隊伍，屆時他將會面對一系列複雜的挑戰。他將率領一所在海外和紐約同時實施積極擴張方案的大學，而它在紐約的方案目前正陷入一場官司中。

Relations between the administration and faculty have been strained; in 2013, the faculty of five of N.Y.U.’s schools passed votes of no confidence in John Sexton, the current president who will be retiring.

該校行政部門與教師之間的關係已經變得十分緊張：2013年，紐約大學五大院系的全體教師集體投票決定，他們已對即將退休的現任校長約翰·塞克斯通(John Sexton)失去信心。

And at a time of national debate about the cost of college, Dr. Hamilton will face pressure to address the high level of debt that N.Y.U.’s students take on. Despite being one of the country’s more selective universities, N.Y.U. has a relatively modest endowment, and as a consequence is one of the most expensive nonprofit four-year colleges in the United States.

此外，鑑於當前正值全美針對大學費用展開爭論之際，漢密爾頓博士還將面臨解決紐約大學學生揹負鉅額債務問題的壓力。儘管紐約大學是美國比較難進的大學之一，但該校所獲得的捐款相對並不充裕，因此，它也是美國學費最貴的非營利四年制大學之一。

In an interview, Dr. Hamilton, who called himself “an academic at heart,” seemed undaunted by the challenges, saying that he was excited about his new post and about moving to the “lively, loud, raucous city of New York.”

在一次採訪中，自詡爲“內心向學”的漢密爾頓博士，在這些挑戰面前似乎毫無懼色，他表示，能夠獲得這份新工作，還有即將前往“紐約這座生機勃勃、喧囂浮華的城市”任職，讓他感到十分興奮。

Asked how he would soothe tensions with the faculty, Dr. Hamilton said that he would be one of them since he plans to continue teaching and doing research, and would listen closely to their opinions.

在被問到將會採取什麼措施以緩和與教師之間的關係時，漢密爾頓博士稱，鑑於他計劃繼續擔任教職和延續研究活動，他也將成爲教師隊伍的一員，並且會近距離地聽取教師們的意見。

“I would very much want to engage, to listen, to hear the ideas, the thoughts of the N.Y.U. faculty,” he said. “I am one of them, and I am committed, as they are, to ensuring that N.Y.U.’s trajectory of great success and enhancement of its core teaching and research missions — that that trajectory continues.”

“我將會非常願意面對、傾聽、聽取紐約大學教師們的創意與想法，”他說，“我是他們當中的一員，我和他們一樣，一心希望爲紐約大學的偉大成功之路保駕護航，同時確保進一步昇華紐約大學教學與研究活動的核心使命——也就是讓本校的成功之路得以延續下去。”

Dr. Hamilton, 62, has been Oxford’s vice chancellor — the equivalent of a university president in the American system — since 2009. Before that, he was the provost of Yale, where he was also a professor of chemistry and molecular biophysics.

62歲的漢密爾頓博士自2009年以來，一直在擔任牛津大學的副校長一職——相當於美國的教育體系中的大學校長。在此之前，他是耶魯大學的教務長，同時兼任化學與分子生物物理學教授。

At Yale, where he had a rapid rise after joining the faculty in 1997, he was credited with recruiting world-class professors and leading the development of a 136-acre science and medical campus outside New Haven.

他在1997年加入耶魯的教師隊伍後，經歷了一段快速晉升的時期。他對該校的主要貢獻，就是聘到了數名世界級的教授，並且主導了耶魯在紐黑文市以外共計136英畝的科學與醫學校區的開發項目。

At Oxford, Dr. Hamilton succeeded a vice chancellor whose popularity sank after he tried to add more nonfaculty members to the governing council.

轉任牛津時，漢密爾頓博士接替了副校長一職。此前的副校長在企圖增加非教師身份的理事會會員後，便人氣大跌。

Dr. Hamilton’s tenure was calm by comparison. Amid sharp cuts in government financing of universities, he was an effective fund-raiser, leading what Oxford described as the largest fund-raising campaign in European university history.

相較之下，漢密爾頓博士的任期則顯得風平浪靜。面對政府對大學扶持資金的驟減，他成功地募集到了牛津所需的援助資金，成爲了被牛津形容爲歐洲大學史上規模最大的融資運動中的領導人物。

He drew a few gasps, but also some praise, by arguing that top British universities should be able to raise tuition prices, which are capped by the government, to cover their costs.

他曾主張，頂級的英國大學應該有權給目前由英國政府指定上限的學費加價，以便有能力負擔校內的開支，這番言論令外界瞠目結舌，但也獲得了一些稱讚。

“He was the right person for the moment,” Neal MacFarlane, a professor of international relations and a member of Oxford’s Council, said in an email on Wednesday.

“他是那一時期的理想人選，”牛津大學國際關係學教授兼理事會成員尼爾·麥克法蘭(Neal MacFarlane)在週三的一封電子郵件中如此表示。

In general, Oxford’s vice chancellors serve only a single seven-year term, so Dr. Hamilton was due to leave next year. He had been courted by other universities, including the University of Texas, where he was a leading candidate for its presidency.

一般而言，牛津歷任副校長的任期僅有七年且不可連任，因此，漢密爾頓博士的任期也將於明年到期。他也先後收到了其他大學發出的邀請，包括將他列爲校長候選人首選的得克薩斯大學(University of Texas)。

Allen Mincer, a physics professor and the incoming chairman of the N.Y.U. Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council, said that from all he had heard, Dr. Hamilton seemed to fit what the faculty was seeking in its next president.

物理學教授艾倫·明瑟(Allen Mincer)是紐約大學終身及準終身教職教師理事會(N.Y.U. Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council)的下任主席，他表示，從他所聽到的所有消息來看，漢密爾頓博士應該完全符合教師們對下任校長的期望。

“His scholarship, his productivity and his track record of success in leadership in institutions — all of that just sounds very good,” Mr. Mincer said.

“他在學院的領導工作中所表現出的學識、能力以及過往的豐功偉績——所有這一切聽上去都十分出色，”明瑟先生說。

Dr. Hamilton, who is married and has three adult children, described his research as sitting at the intersection of chemistry and biology, seeking ways to use chemistry to intervene in biological systems, specifically human diseases.

漢密爾頓先生目前已婚，膝下的三名子女均已成年。他將自己的研究工作形容爲一門介乎於化學與生物學之間的交叉學科，專事探索利用化學干預生物系統之道，尤其是人類疾病領域。

Dr. Sexton enhanced N.Y.U.’s prestige, attracting star faculty members and presiding over a large increase in student applications.

塞克斯通博士加強了紐約大學的聲望，吸引到了若干明星教師加盟，並且實現了學生申請人數的大幅增長。

Under him, N.Y.U. has become a trendsetter among American universities for its aggressive expansion abroad, having opened degree-granting campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

在他的管理下，紐約大學在海外積極擴張，先後於中國上海和阿聯酋首都阿布扎比兩地，設立了可授予該校學位的分校，從而成爲了美國衆所大學中的時代潮流創造者。

That growth has also brought criticism, especially at the Abu Dhabi campus, where construction was financed and overseen by the government and where laborers said they were mistreated.

這一發展同樣引來了若干抨擊，尤其是位於阿聯酋的阿布扎比分校——該校的校園建設由當地政府資助和監督，而參與建設工程的工人聲稱自己遭到了虐待。

Faculty members have also raised concerns about academic freedom on those campuses. Last weekend, an N.Y.U. professor learned that he had been barred from the United Arab Emirates after criticizing the exploitation of migrant workers there.

該校教師也對這些分校內部的學術自由度產生了諸多擔憂。上週末，一名紐約大學教授就發現，自己在對阿聯酋的移民勞工所遭受的剝削髮出抨擊之聲後，竟已被阿聯酋禁止入境。

In New York, the university is fighting a lawsuit from opponents of a plan to add two million square feet of space to its holdings in and around Greenwich Village.

在紐約當地，這所大學則正在迎戰一批反對者發起的法律訴訟——該校計劃在格林尼治村境內及其周邊地區，再另外拓展200萬平方英尺的校園面積，卻遭到了激烈反對。

N.Y.U. would not discuss Dr. Hamilton’s compensation, but it is almost certainly higher than his pay at Oxford, reported to be £442,000, or $660,000. Dr. Sexton earned $1.5 million in total compensation in the 2012-13 school year, according to the most recent publicly available tax returns.

紐約大學方面不肯透露漢密爾頓博士的具體薪酬，不過基本可以確定，這個數字一定會高於他在牛津大學的報酬——官方數字爲44.2萬英鎊，約合66萬美元（約合401萬元）。根據最新公開的所得稅申報單披露，塞克斯通博士在2012—2013學年中的薪酬收入共計150萬美元（約合932萬元）。

N.Y.U. picked Dr. Hamilton from over 200 nominees. It did not disclose who the other candidates were. But at one point, Michael Lynton, the chief executive of Sony Entertainment, wanted the job, according to emails that were published online during the Sony hacking scandal last year.

紐約大學是在200多名人選中挑中漢密爾頓博士的。該校並未披露其他的候選人身份。不過根據索尼公司(Sony)在去年遭遇黑客攻擊醜聞期間被公佈在網上的多封電子郵件內容來看，至少索尼娛樂(Sony Entertainment)的首席執行官邁克爾·林頓(Michael Lynton)曾一度想要爭取這個職位。

According to the emails, Mr. Lynton discussed his desire for the job last fall with the New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.

根據這些郵件披露，林頓先生曾在去年秋季時，對《紐約客》(New Yorker)的撰稿人馬爾科姆·格拉德威爾(Malcolm Gladwell)談到了自己想要入主紐約大學的願望。

Mr. Gladwell told Mr. Lynton, based on a conversation with a New Yorker editor who is married to an N.Y.U. professor and member of the presidential search committee, that “the crucial thing is helping them see you as the nurturer and protector of creative types NOT the corporate empire builder, which they have all had enough of with sexton.”

格拉德威爾先生告訴林頓先生，《紐約客》有名編輯的愛人就是紐約大學的教授，並且也是校長遴選委員會的成員之一，而根據他與該名編輯的對話結果來看，“關鍵在於幫助他們看到你所能發揮出的創新培育者與守護者的作用，而非一位企業帝國的建設者——這一點他們在塞克斯通先生身上已經見識夠了。”