Word: botstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein...
...students a major voice in charting their studies ever since it opened in 1963. "We're not taking Leon because he's 23," says Dartmouth College Chaplain Paul W. Rahmeier, chairman of Franconia's trustees, "nor would we avoid him because he's 23." Botstein was chosen, the trustees maintain, because he was the best man. And he was not chosen by the board alone; a search committee of students, faculty and trustees interviewed him and recommended his appointment...
Mixed Results. For Botstein, who is completing his Ph.D. in history at Harvard and this year served as a special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education, Franconia will be a challenge, to say the least. Botstein will be the school's fourth president since 1963. Franconia's current president, Larry Lemmel, is quitting because the job kept him away from his family and scholarly pursuits...
...though the school was changed from a junior college to a four-year institution in 1965, it has still granted only 25 bachelor's degrees. Since scholarship funds are very limited, the annual cost ($3,800) discourages all but the well-to-do. In addition to these problems, Botstein must overcome the difficulties of his age. He will be younger than most of his faculty and some of his students as well...
...permanence of institutions and pay too little attention to what they do," he says. He counts on the school's experimental aura to engage students in a day when collegians increasingly regard traditional education as "irrelevant." If Franconia can awaken more and more students to their own capacities, Botstein believes, the problems of funding and accreditation can be solved. However he fares, Botstein is firmly convinced that a president should never become inseparably tied to one institution. He expects to retire before he is 30, "to start from the bottom somewhere else...