June 19, 2011
Its Leader Under Fire, UMass Flagship Has No Clear Route to Elite Status
Lisa Poole, AP Images
Robert Holub, at a meeting of the UMass Board of Trustees, is fighting to save his job as chancellor of the system's flagship campus.
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Lisa Poole, AP Images
Robert Holub, at a meeting of the UMass Board of Trustees, is fighting to save his job as chancellor of the system's flagship campus.
In the background of Robert C. Holub's increasingly bitter fight to save his job as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, larger questions persist about the future of the flagship campus.
Mr. Holub's ouster, which appears likely in the face of growing criticism from faculty and system leaders, would mark yet another turnover at the top of Amherst, which has labored over the past decade to establish itself as a major research workhorse in a sea of elite private
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