June 2, 2000

A Promoter of Town-Gown Cooperation Finds Development May Be Her Undoing

By JULIANNE BASINGER

Critics question Connecticut College chief's tactics in trying to rebuild waterfront city

In 12 years as president of Connecticut College, Claire L. Gaudiani has become a well-known figure in higher education, through a combination of style and substance. Her visibility has increased in large part through her efforts to help redevelop this waterfront city and to urge other liberal-arts colleges to engage in similar civic projects for "social justice."

Now some of her decisions

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