NOTES FROM ACADEME

A College Leadership Program Helps a Mother Consider Politics

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

New Brunswick, N.J.

Melissa P. Deputy is a 49-year-old mother of five and a community-college student who is running hard. But maybe, she now thinks, not too hard to consider running for public office.

She's studying full time at Raritan Valley Community...

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