September 28, 2001

Senate Confirms New NEH Chairman

By RON SOUTHWICK

Bruce Cole will become the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, following the Senate's quiet approval of his nomination this month.

President Bush's selection of Mr. Cole, a professor of art history at Indiana University at Bloomington, pleased many scholars who hope he will place more emphasis on a traditional curriculum and scholarship than did his predecessor.

The Senate approved Mr. Cole's nomination by unanimous consent. Most scholars and university

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