ANN ARBOR—Billy E. Frye, former University of Michigan provost and vice president for academic affairs, has been honored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation with the establishment of the Billy E. Frye Digital Leadership Institute at Emory University. The institute has been formed to effect fundamental change in how universities manage their information resources in the new digital era.

Currently serving as chancellor of Emory, Frye spent 25 years at U-M, beginning his career in 1961 as an assistant professor in zoology. He chaired the zoology department in 1971-73. For the next seven years he served in administrative posts in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, including dean of that College. He was named provost and vice president for academic affairs of U-M in 1980 and left in 1986 to serve at Emory.

The institute named for Frye will provide continuing education opportunities for individuals who currently hold, or will one day assume, positions that make them responsible for transforming the management of scholarly information in institutions of higher education.