National Academy’s Troubles Shadow Report on Humanities

The report, requested with much fanfare in 2010 by a bipartisan group in Congress and produced by a blue-ribbon commission assembled by the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is likely to land as controversy continues to surround Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, the academy’s embattled president and one of the report’s prime movers. </P>Last week Ms. Berlowitz stepped away from her day-to-day responsibilities at the academy, the 233-year-old scholarly society in Cambridge,

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