College presidents are showing some nerve

Rita Bornstein, former president of Rollins College in Florida and writer on university leadership, tells the Boston Globe about the risk that college and university presidents are taking in speaking out for the DREAM Act:

“You have to give them credit for a degree of bravery. The immigration issue is sufficiently controversial that everyone has a passionate perspective. They have to be concerned about their trustees and donors.’’

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