June 15, 2001

Bush Nominates an Art Historian to Run the Humanities Endowment

By RON SOUTHWICK

President Bush nominated Bruce Cole last month to serve as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a move that would once again put a conservative scholar at the agency's helm.

If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Cole, a professor of fine arts at Indiana University at Bloomington, will replace William R. Ferris, who was appointed to the post by President Bill Clinton and has led the endowment since November 1997. Mr. Ferris had hoped to stay on.

Mr. Cole, who declined

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