February 15, 2008

A Former President of Oberlin Gets a Job in Bangladesh; Cuba Expert in Florida Plans Visit Via South Carolina; Dartmouth's Chief Steps Down

By PAULA WASLEY, JOHN GRAVOIS, and MARTIN VAN DER WERF

BANGLADESH BOUND: A year after stepping down as president of Oberlin College, Nancy S. Dye has accepted the presidency of the long-awaited Asian University for Women, which is slated to open in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2009.

Plans for the university, which will offer a liberal-arts education to women from poor areas of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, and neighboring countries, have been in the works since 2001. Now, with financial support from the U.S. Agency for International