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New College of Florida, a liberal-arts-and-sciences honors college within the Florida state system, has selected a mathematician as its next president.
Donal B. O’Shea, 59, has been the dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs at Mount Holyoke College since 1998. He has also enjoyed a reputation as one of the world’s best-known geometers.
The long corridors of Antioch Hall are dark. The fluorescent lights, perhaps 50 years old and never updated, do not work. The vinyl floor tiles are loose. There are cobwebs and puddles on the floor, and the whole place smells of mold. You have to squint, almost, to picture this four-story brick building as the birthplace of one of the most vaunted experiments in American higher education.
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Ursinus was as close to an alma mater as he’d get. In her memoir, Margaret, his daughter, wrote that he “had only good things to say about Ursinus and its lack of pretension.”
Ursinus College Trades on Its Salinger Connection, Cautiously
