"Dr. Fong brings a strong liberal arts educational background as well as a lengthy tenure in academic administration to the university," says Stephen Briganti, board chairman and chair of the Presidential Search Committee. "Dr. Fong was the unanimous choice of the search committee based on his academic leadership, his appreciation of the value of diversity and his proficiency in deploying and raising financial resources."
Fong, the American-born child of Chinese emigrants, is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard. He has a doctorate in English literature from UCLA. He is a specialist in the poetry of Oscar Wilde and is the editor of the newly-released Poems and Poems in Prose, volume one in the new variorum Complete Works of Oscar Wilde i
