January 12, 2001

Candidate for CUNY Presidency Said to Profit From Political Connections; English Dept. at Fordham U. Gets First Endowed Professor

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN and SCOTT HELLER

If you're vying for a presidency in the City University of New York system, it never hurts to be friendly with the mayor. That's Jennifer J. Raab's primary qualification for the top job at CUNY's Hunter College, say faculty members on the campus who complain that political patronage made Ms. Raab one of the four finalists for the post.

Faculty members familiar with the search say her candidacy has rankled the chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, and created tension between him and the

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