January 29, 2012
A New Test of Leadership
Amherst is a far cry from Wisconsin, but professors are famously tough on presidents
Kelvin Ma for The Chronicle
In her first year as president of Amherst College, Carolyn (Biddy) Martin joins students at lunch.
Amherst, Mass.
There are more than 1,000 miles between this idyllic college town and Madison, Wis., but that distance must seem even greater in Carolyn A. (Biddy) Martin's rearview mirror.
The nearly yearlong roar of protesters in Madison, where Ms. Martin had a relatively short and rocky tenure as head of the state's flagship campus, has been replaced with the calm that whispers through Amherst College like one of Emily Dickinson's tamer verses.
Amherst represents a turning of the page for
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