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...higher education. But that may be appropriate. In the past 20 years, too many colleges overbuilt, too many aspired to do too much, and as a result, too many are competing frantically -- and wastefully -- for the same students. "We need more community colleges and fewer research universities," observes Duffey of American University, "and there should be more liberal- arts schools focusing on undergraduate education." A smaller system might turn out to be a better system, particularly if colleges concentrate on developing their unique strengths. But to do so will require all the brainpower and ingenuity that American educators can muster...
...addition to Bok, members of the group--known as the Business Coalition for Responsible Change--include Jean Mayer president of Tufts University; the Rev. J. Donald Monan, president of Boston College; and Joseph Duffey, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, according to James W. Segel '67, the group's executive director...
These are steps in the right direction. But it is likely that the country's colleges will be plagued by prejudice as long as students, complacent in their insensitivity and ignorance, feel that parents, politicians and even professors find such attitudes acceptable. Observes Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the scene of several racial incidents: "Our campuses are a testing ground for some of the resentments young people sense are out there in society...
...testing of all marriage-license applicants, hospital patients and convicts and has unloaded on Republicans and Democrats alike who opposed the President's Iranian and contra policies. All that after Brother Bob told him about the fish. "He sees a complex federal agency as a bully pulpit," comments Joseph Duffey, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Bennett's predecessor at NEH. "It is the temperament of a preacher." Hawkins has another, perhaps more canny, perspective: "Bennett gives the answers of a professional politician rather than a professional educator" -- a judgment some observers...
Officials at UMass agreed to take action against students who commit racial violence, while the school's chancellor, Joseph Duffey, sent the protesters a basket of fruit...