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After considering 337 candidates in its search, Birenbaum was named as president of
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who had sought to raise tuition as a means of dealing with the college's mounting debt burden. Hoxie demanded
Birenbaum's resignation in March 1967, despite the fact that the faculty had voted by a nearly 4–1 margin to keep him as provost. 1,500 students gathered to mount what turned out to be
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an unsuccessful protest against
Birenbaum's dismissal, chanting "We want Bill" and physically confronting Dr. Hoxie. The sequence of events, on the other hand, eventually resulted in Hoxie being asked to resign in September 1968 by the board of trustees. Birenbaum served as president of
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was able to report in a headline of an article about the college that "A Streamlined
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campus dropping from 2,000 to 1,000 during the 1970s. Birenbaum implemented cost-cutting measures including a cut in the number of satellite campus programs nationwide from 30 down to under 10 and established
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described tensions on campus due to the school's dire financial crisis and that
Birenbaum's "pugnacious and often abrasive style had offended many Antiochians", with enrollment at the
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William M. Birenbaum Papers were donated by Helen Birenbaum in 2012 to the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Library at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).
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home. He was survived by his wife, the former Helen Bloch, as well as by a daughter, a son and four grandchildren. His daughter Susan
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CM-22: A Guide to the William M. Birenbaum Collection
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VELIKOVSKY, BONDS OF THE PAST, A Movie by Henry Zemel
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