Faculty members stop short of calling for Leon Botstein to resign in wake of revelations about ties with sex offender <\/p>\n
Members of Bard College\u2019s faculty have called on the group\u2019s board of trustees to develop a \u201ctransition in leadership\u201d plan for Leon Botstein but stopped short of calling for the college president to resign in the wake of revelations about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n The board of trustees announced on 19 February that it had retained the outside lawfirm of WilmerHale<\/a> to conduct an \u201cindependent review\u201d into communications between Epstein and Botstein, who has served as the college\u2019s president for 50 years.<\/p>\n Do you have a tip on this story? Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty members stop short of calling for Leon Botstein to resign in wake of revelations about ties with sex offender Members of Bard College\u2019s faculty have called on the group\u2019s board of trustees to develop a \u201ctransition in leadership\u201d plan for Leon Botstein but stopped short of calling for the college president to resign in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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