Pictures from an Institution
Alice Gregory on Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, and his unusual approach to fund-raising and endowments.
"Life is not about odd, tricky problems that try to cheat you out of the little you know." — Leon Botstein, offering students a choice: submit test scores or write four academic papers, ten thousand words, graded by Bard professors. His aim was to repudiate "the whole rigmarole of college admissions."