Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, will be stepping down at the end of the current academic year, the school announced on Wednesday morning. (The news broke in the media world on Tuesday afternoon.)
“I am proud to have completed a decade-long term as dean of the Journalism School, and excited about the prospect of a great new dean’s leading the school to new heights during the term to come,” Lemann said in a press release from the school, which is CJR’s parent organization. Lemann, the release adds, will take a year off from the j-school and then return as faculty. He will also continue to be a New Yorker staff writer.
During Lemann’s tenure, he created the school’s MA program, an optional second year of topic-specific journalism study beyond the generalist bent of the foundational MS program, and oversaw the addition of the school’s student center.
University President Lee Bollinger will lead the search for Lemann’s replacement, according to the press release.
This is the shoddiest manufacturing line of brain dead Leftists agitators parading as 'ethical journolistas". Not only that they teach how to fabricate news, they employ those who were exposed in making up stories, all for the cause of destroying capitalism and the American way which o them is so destructive. Is it a wonder that primo terrorist Bill Ayre came to enhance his academic credentials at Columbia? is it a wonder why Marxist mentored Obama came to loiter on campus? Not a single person remembers seeing him in class but this is how Columbia functions, an organized shelter for the Radical Left, to organize their next plan of attack.
#1 Posted by Al Sheeber, CJR on Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 01:14 PM