July 21, 2006

New Dean Brings Variety of Experiences to CUNY Honors College; U. of North Texas Names Sole Finalist for Presidency; Pop-Culture Center Takes the Name of Its Conservative Co-Founder

By BEN LEUBSDORF, XIAO-BO YUAN, and JENNIFER JACOBSON

WITH HONORS: What does a former scholar of Victorian literature do after she's mastered the business world, dragged the National Football League onto the Internet, and written a book about her mother? Go back to school, of course.

Ann G. Kirschner, 55, last week became dean of the City University of New York's Honors College after three years as a strategy consultant to universities and heading Columbia University's for-profit Internet venture, Fathom, which folded in 2003.

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