July 7, 2000
Columbia U.'s English Department Frustrated in Search for New Leader; Rensselaer Polytechnic Plans to Hire 50 New Professors
The healing isn't coming easily to Columbia University's fractured department of English and comparative literature, which spent the past year looking for an outside chairman. First the department failed to snag either of its two top candidates. Now the professor who headed the search -- and this year, the department -- has just announced that he won't stick around as chairman any longer.
"I've done the job I was asked to do," says Martin Meisel, a professor of dramatic literature and
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