Don Michael Randel

'''Don Michael Randel''' (born December 9, 1940) is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France.<ref name = "Mellon History">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.mellon.org/about/history/#!/randel|publisher=The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation|access-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref> He is currently the chair of the board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,<ref>{{cite web|title=Board, Council, and Trust|url=https://www.amacad.org/contentu.aspx?i=270|publisher=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|access-date=January 1, 2015|date=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801211452/https://www.amacad.org/contentu.aspx?i=270|archive-date=August 1, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation,<ref>{{cite web|title=Don M. Randel|url=http://carnegie.org/about-us/board-of-directors/don-m-randel/|publisher=Carnegie Corporation of New York|access-date=January 1, 2015|archive-date=November 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116092442/http://carnegie.org/about-us/board-of-directors/don-m-randel|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a member of the Encyclopædia Britannica editorial board,<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Michael Randel|url=https://corporate.britannica.com/board/randel.html|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=January 1, 2015|date=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305043137/https://corporate.britannica.com/board/randel.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and has previously served as the fifth president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as 12th president of the University of Chicago from 2000 to 2006, Provost of Cornell University, and Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.<ref name = "UofC Election">{{cite web|title=Don Michael Randel elected 12th President of the University of Chicago|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/resources/randel/|publisher=University of Chicago News Office|access-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref> He has served as editor of the third and fourth editions of the ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'', the ''Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music'', and the ''Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians''.<ref name = "UofC Election"/> He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Don+Michael+Randel&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-10-05|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

Randel is a triple alumnus of Princeton University, where he earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in musicology. After completing his PhD at Princeton, Randel joined Cornell University as an assistant professor in 1968. In 1991 he accepted the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, then in 1995 became the provost of Cornell.<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Michael Randel|url=https://music.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profile/don-michael-randel/|publisher=Cornell University Department of Music|access-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref>

On July 1, 2000, Randel succeeded Hugo F. Sonnenschein as president of the University of Chicago. As President, Randel led the Chicago Initiative, a $2 billion capital campaign to solidify the university's financial footing. He also worked to strengthen the academic work of the university in many areas, from humanities and arts to physical and biological sciences, and drove efforts to build stronger ties with community and regional organizations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Michael Randel (2000-2006)|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/president/history/randel.shtml|publisher=University of Chicago News Office|access-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref> In 2005, Randel received a $500,000 award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York in recognition of these efforts.<ref>{{cite news|title=Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces Inaugural $1.5 Million Academic Leadership Awards|url=http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-announces-inaugural-15-million-academic-leadership-awards|access-date=January 1, 2015|publisher=Carnegie Corporation|date=4 March 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102025442/http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-announces-inaugural-15-million-academic-leadership-awards|archive-date=2 January 2015}}</ref>

On July 26, 2005, Randel announced that he would leave the University of Chicago to assume the presidency of the Mellon Foundation,<ref>{{cite web|title=President Randel's Announcement|url=http://presidentialsearch.uchicago.edu/randel_letter.html|publisher=University of Chicago|access-date=January 1, 2015|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184609/http://presidentialsearch.uchicago.edu/randel_letter.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> where he served from 2006 to 2013.<ref name = "Mellon History"/>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140827063640/http://music.uchicago.edu/node/158 Profile at the University of Chicago Department of Music]

{{S-start}} {{S-aca}} {{succession box | before = Malden Nesheim | title = Provost of Cornell University | years = 1995 – 2000 | after = Carolyn Martin }} {{succession box | before=Hugo F. Sonnenschein| title=President of the University of Chicago| years=2000—2006| after=Robert J. Zimmer }} {{succession box | before=William G. Bowen| title= President of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation| years=2006–2013 | after=Earl Lewis }} {{S-end}}

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