‘It is remarkable how approachable he is’: Rashid Zia ’01 closes tenure as dean of the College

‘It is remarkable how approachable he is’: Rashid Zia ’01 closes tenure as dean of the College

When Dean of the College Rashid Zia '01 was a student at Brown, his engineering textbooks - which still sit in his office - were among the most expensive items he had ever purchased, he said. Over a decade later, in his first year as dean of the College, Zia established the Book/Course Material Support program to incorporate textbooks into a student's financial aid.Zia will end his seven-year-long tenure as dean of the College on June 30 and go …