May 19, 2000

5 Political Scientists to Leave U. of Rochester; Scholar Takes Advantage of Hot Job Market for New-Media Experts

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN and SCOTT HELLER

In one fell swoop, the University of Rochester is losing nearly a fifth of its professors in political science.

Unfortunate coincidence or concerted flight? All five of those leaving opposed the university's decision a few years ago to divorce the department from its master's program in public policy, even though the relationship had become fraught with tension. In the spring of 1999, the university suspended admissions into the master's program, later abandoning it altogether. But not