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Their choice is Albert H. Bowker, 51, chancellor of the City University of New York. Said Regent William M. Roth: "This is a hopeful sign that the whole university community can come together." For CUNY Board Chairman Frederick Burkhardt, it was something else. "They say no man is irreplaceable," he said. "But right now I find that very hard to believe...
Breathtaking Expansion. During his eight years at CUNY, Bowker has indeed become an irreplaceable crisis manager and shrewd lobbyist for city and state funds. Disarmingly low-keyed and rumpled (he looks, say aides, "like an unmade bed"), he has charmed state legislators and plugged his office into New York politics by installing hot lines to both Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. As a result, he has engineered a breathtaking expansion of both CUNY's enrollment (now 195,000) and its commitment to solving urban problems. His major accomplishment came last fall when he launched CUNY...
Born in Winchendon, Mass., Bowker earned degrees at M.I.T. and Columbia and became a leading mathematical statistician. As dean of the Stanford graduate school, he sharply improved its faculty, then left in 1963 to create a first-rate graduate program at CUNY. Because of his unusual record of academic, political and social expertise, University of California President Charles J. Hitch recommended only one man to head Berkeley-Bowker...
...Bowker is leaving CUNY at a time when city funds are getting tighter and the university's rate of budget growth is likely to start declining. He will stick through this year's budget crisis, which he admits is "catastrophic," and then tackle more of the same at Berkeley. His first priority: salving the cuts in Berkeley's staff (110 teaching positions this year) that Governor Reagan's parsimonious budgets have made necessary. That task, in fact, may be a relief after the strain of running CUNY's 20 units, which he seldom had time...
Ultimately, Bowker hopes to attack poor education at its roots: the public schools. He thinks that the open-admissions policy is already encouraging more slum kids to try for college and refuse to settle for general diplomas. Even under C.U.N.Y.'s new policy, those entering four-year colleges must either have earned an 80% average or rank in the top half of their school classes. Bowker is also mindful that C.U.N.Y. supplies 60% of the city's schoolteachers and reasons that his new minority students will eventually raise the schools' low ratio (11%) of minority teachers. Moreover...