The Chronicle of Higher Education
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The College President as Politician

To the Editor:

The article about Michael S. Garrison captures the rise and decline of his stunningly brief tenure at West Virginia University ("Questions Follow a Political President's Fall," The Chronicle, June 20). Most of what is recounted about his biography, how and why he became president, and the horrible ethical breach that occurred...

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