September 22, 2000
Chairman of English Department Quits at SUNY-Albany as Turmoil Continues
After years of infighting, the English department at the State University of New York at Albany seemed to be on the mend when it hired Tom Cohen as chairman two years ago. But this month, Mr. Cohen resigned the post after losing a power struggle with his dean, leaving the department once again in turmoil.
As Mr. Cohen explains it, the atmosphere in the English department was "poisonous" when he arrived at Albany in the fall of 1998. Two years earlier, the university had placed the
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