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  1. Vartan Gregorian (1934-)

    Categories: Education & Universities
    The President Takes the Bus

    During his nine-year tenure as president of Brown University, from 1989 to 1997, on many occasions when Vartan Gregorian needed to get to Boston's Logan airport, he took the bus. Gregorian was making a point. Brown's faculty members and students traveled by bus, so he should, too.

    “I took the job at Brown as a mission because it was struggling financially,” he says. Read more >

 

 

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