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Garrett B. Nagle, who received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at A.U., says that many of the academic improvements had already begun under former President Richard E. Berendzen...
Hold the Phone The trustees of Washington's American University offered the school's former President, Richard Berendzen, a $1 million settlement after he pleaded guilty to making obscene calls to a female day-care worker and resigned his post. The deal caused such an uproar that a month later it was rescinded. But Berendzen still gets some $380,000 in severance pay and works as a full professor in the physics department (he's an astronomer) at about $70,000 a year...
...Richard Berendzen won't be getting his $1 million severance package from American University after all. But everything considered, he can hardly gripe. Berendzen resigned as president of the Washington institution last April after making repeated obscene telephone calls from his office to a woman in Virginia. Last week, following a campus-wide uproar over their largesse, the trustees struck a more modest deal: Berendzen will be retained as a tenured senior physics professor at a salary "appropriate to his faculty rank," somewhere around $70,000 a year, and will begin teaching in the spring...
...original $1 million offer had prompted three weeks of campus protests. Many students and faculty members denounced the deal as a cop-out for the university and a windfall for Berendzen. Last week's compromise got a better reception. Said Diane Jackson of the Undergraduate Student Confederation: "This is a compassionate solution that will allow Dr. Berendzen and the A.U. community the time they need to heal." Still, many faculty members are hoping that by the spring of 1992, Berendzen will choose to go elsewhere...
...Berendzen never did find a black candidate; Snyder found a way to hang in with her anthropology studies. But both cases symbolize a chilling reality: at universities across the nation, blacks in particular and minorities in general are shockingly underrepresented at all levels, from the top of the faculty down to the lowliest freshman. The most dramatic drop-offs occur at the upper levels. Minorities constitute more than 20% of the nation's college-age population, but according to Sheila Biddle, program officer of the Ford Foundation, they accounted for only 8% of the 31,190 Ph.D.s awarded...