<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2021/interim-provost-guides-academic-programs.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Interim Provost Guides Academic Programs</title><excerpt>Westmont continues to search for a new provost, the second-highest-ranking administrative officer at the college. Rick Ifland ’83, director of the Eaton Program for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Westmont, associate professor of economics and business and chair of the department, has served as the college’s interim provost and dean of the faculty since January 2021.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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