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...turmoil and siege on campus, it is little wonder that Columbia University - without a president for much of that time - has been unable to find a willing candidate for the post. John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, showed no interest when overtures were made. Martin Meyerson, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, demurred publicly after word of negotiations was leaked. Now the Columbia trustees have turned to Alexander Heard, 52, the able chancellor of Vanderbilt University and one of the small number of their preferred choices. At week's end Columbia...
...founders, Lloyd Rowdin of MIT and Martin Meyerson of Harvard, modeled the Center after traditional research centers in other fields--with the fundamental view that you can do urban research the same way as other research. The analogy stemmed at least partly from a desire to prove "legitimate" a field of research which was not at the time entirely respectable...
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan took over as director of the Center in 1966, trend-predictors expected him to chart a more policy-oriented course than his predecessors, Martin Meyerson and James Q. Wilson. While the basic orientation of the Center has remained armchair--and to all indication will remain so--the Center has begun to do policy-advising ("staff studies") with clients or agencies that request assistance, much as a consulting firm would...
...Meyerson encourages his provosts to sign up nonspecialized instructors who fit no departmental niche but may be top flight teachers. Reaching outside normal academic ranks for his provosts, Meyerson picked former Harper's and Horizon Editor Eric Larrabee to head the faculty of Arts and Letters...
...handle Buffalo's bright students (more than 85% of this year's freshmen are from the top fifth of their high school class), Meyerson is planning 20 subordinate nondegree colleges for commuters as well as residents. Each will have its own master and will offer courses and social activities appealing to students of a particular lifestyle. At the moment, 21,735 students are crowded onto Buffalo's old 178-acre campus, and enrollment is expected to reach 41,000 within six years. That is no problem. S.U.N.Y. is about to build an entirely new 1,200-acre...