7.24.2002
cross-town rivalry
Columbia President Suspends Search for New Dean of Journalism School
from the new york times
he search for a new dean to lead Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism was abruptly suspended yesterday by the university's new president. He said the school, long regarded as a leader in its field, needed to rethink its mission and curriculum and place less emphasis on teaching skills like reporting and editing.
In an e-mail message announcing his decision to faculty, students and staff of the school, the new president, Lee C. Bollinger, said, "To teach the craft of journalism is a worthy goal, but clearly insufficient in this new world and within the setting of a great university."
Mr. Bollinger, the former president of the University of Michigan, who took the helm at Columbia only a few weeks ago, said he believed the school — which publishes The Columbia Journalism Review and administers the Pulitzer Prizes — should be more academic and delve more deeply into substantive issues like changes in communications and the role of a free press.
"The teaching of the craft is important," he said. "The question is balance."
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Mr. Klatell, the acting dean, said there were categories of students the school would like who typically do not apply, like top student editors. "They may go to law school or business school or right into the craft," he said. "If you are the editor of The Columbia Spectator or The Harvard Crimson, you may leap right into a job. But we'd like to figure out ways to attract more of these people into the school. They can bring interesting ideas to the school, and we can provide them with added value that will make them more desirable."
In his e-mail message, Mr. Bollinger wrote, "We live in an age in which the system of communications is widely understood to be undergoing revolutionary changes, and, at the same time, is the critical element in forging democracies, markets, culture, and the phenomenon of globalization."
With an historically important role and a location in the "media capital of the world." he said, it "should continue to be the leading school of its kind in the world."
i think, quite personally, that my education at nyu has plenty of balance. nyah nyah.
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