April 29, 2005

Israel's Regional Colleges, Ambitious but Frustrated, Seek New Role

By HAIM WATZMAN

They want growth, respect, and money, too

Zeev Tzahor, president of Sapir Academic College, is angry. He has ambitions for his college, but his plans keep getting shot down.

Most recently, Israeli higher-education officials rejected his request to open a law school. Nor will they allow him to accept as many students as he thinks should be attending college in this economically depressed region near the sand dunes of the Negev, Israel's southern desert.

The policy planners

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