March 31, 2000

Bard College and Rockefeller U. to Exchange Students and Professors

At first, Bard College and Rockefeller University may seem an odd couple for an exchange of students and professors.

One is a small liberal-arts college, and the other an even smaller graduate university, known for its biomedical research. It was the differences, though, that made the experimental, small-scale partnership compelling, says Bard's president, Leon Botstein.

Bard's administration wanted to expand the college's science program without