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Princeton University Deputy Dean Takes Position at New School in Arkansas

Princeton resident Clayton Marsh will head an independent school funded by the family that founded Wal-Mart.

The Deputy Dean at Princeton University is departing to become the founding head of a school in Arkansas, Planet Princeton reports.

Princeton resident Clayton Marsh will head the independent school in Bentonville that will be funded by the Walton Family Foundation, according to the report. The Walton Family founded Wal-Mart.

The school will offer classes for students in middle school and high school. Marsh, a Princeton University alum, became an administrator at the university in 2002 and deputy dean in 2011, according to the report.

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