More College Presidents Joining Statement on British Boycott
September 25, 2007 – New York – 160 more presidents of American colleges and universities have joined the national effort to endorse Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's statement denouncing the decision by the union representing British academics to promote a boycott of Israeli educational institutions.

In a full-page ad published August 8 by the American Jewish Committee in the New York Times, the first group of 286 presidents and their schools was listed.

Click here for the full listing of presidents who have joined the national effort.

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The additional 160 are:

Abilene Christian University
Royce Money
Monroe College
Stephen J. Jerome
Acupuncture and Massage College
Richard Browne
Moore College of Art & Design
Happy Craven Fernandez
Albion College
Donna Randall
Mount St. Mary's University
Thomas H. Powell
American Jewish University
Robert Wexler
Mount Union College
Richard Giese
Andover Newton Theological School
Nick Carter
National University of Health Sciences
James Winterstein
Antioch University Seattle
Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet
Newberry College
Mitchell M. Zais
Auburn University
Jay Gogue
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Daniel H. López
Auburn University Montgomery
John Veres
New York University
John Edward Sexton
Austin College
Oscar C. Page
Northeastern Illinois University
Sharon Hahs
Baltimore Hebrew University
Barry M. Gittlen (Interim President)
Northeastern University
Joseph Aoun
Barry University
Linda M. Bevilacqua
Northern Kentucky University
James C. Votruba
Barton College
Norval C. Kneten
Northern Michigan University
Leslie E Wong
Baruch College
Kathleen Waldron
Norwalk Community College
David L. Levinson
Beulah Heights University
Benson M. Karanja
Oberlin College
Marvin Krislov
Bloomfield College
Richard A. Levao
Oglethorpe University
Lawrence M. Schall
Boston Architectural College
Theodore C. Landsmark
The Ohio State University
Joseph A. Alutto
Boston University
Robert A. Brown
Ohio University
Roderick J. McDavis
Bristol Community College
John J. Sbrega
Oklahoma State University
Blake I. Sonobe
Brooklyn College
Chirstoph M. Kimmich
Pace University
Stephen J. Friedman
Bryn Mawr College
Nancy J. Vickers
Pacific Lutheran University
Loren Anderson
Cardinal Stritch University
Sr. Mary Lea Schneider
Palm Beach Community College
Dennis P. Gallon
Caldwell College
Sister Patrice Werner
Pratt Institute
Thomas F. Schutte
Carleton College
Robert Oden Jr.
Queens College – CUNY
James Muyskens
Carroll College
Thomas J. Trebon
Randolph-Macon College
Robert R. Lindgren
Case Western Reserve University
Barbara R. Snyder
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Dan Ehrenkrantz
Catholic Theological Union
Rev. Donald Senior
Rochester College
Michael W. Westerfield
The Catholic University of America
Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, C.M.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
K. Michael Welch
Central Connecticut State University
John W. Miller
Rosemont College
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Central Michigan University
Michael Rao
Saint Peter's College
Eugene J. Cornacchia
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Michael Horowitz
San Diego State University
Stephen L. Weber
Colgate University
Rebecca Chopp
Santa Clara University
Paul Locatelli, S.J.
College of Charleston
P. George Benson
Sarah Lawrence College
Karen Lawrence
College of Saint Elizabeth
Sister Francis Raftery
Seattle University
Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J
College of Saint Rose
R. Mark Sullivan
Shimer College
William Craig Rice
College of Wooster
Grant H. Cornwell
Skidmore College
Philip A. Glotzbach
Colorado College
Richard F. Celeste
Southeastern University
Mark Rutland
Concordia College
Viji George
Southern Illinois University
Glenn Poshard
Creighton University
John P. Schlegel
Southwest Baptist University
Pat Taylor
Delaware State University
Allen L. Sessoms
Southwestern Christian University
Bob R. Ely
DePauw University
Robert G. Bottoms
State University of New York - Potsdam
John Schwaller
Dickinson College
William Durden
St. Lawrence University
Daniel F. Sullivan
Dominican University of California
Joseph R. Fink
Stevens Institute of Technology
Harold J. Raveche
Drexel University
Constantine Papadakis
SUNY at Albany
Susan Herbst
The Evergreen State College
Thomas L. Purce, President
SUNY at Buffalo
John B. Simpson
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Dr. J. Michael Adams
State University of New York at Geneseo
Christopher C. Dahl
Faith Baptist Bible College and Theolgical Seminary
James D. Maxwell
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi
Candace S. Vancko
Faith Evangelical Seminary
Michael J. Adams
Sweet Briar College
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
Felician College
Sister Theresa Martin
Temple University
Ann Weaver Hart
Florida Southern College
Anne B. Kerr
Tennessee Technological University
Robert R. Bell
Florida State University
Thomas K. Wetherell
Texas A&M University
Ed J. Davis (Interim President)
Fontbonne University
Dennis C. Golden
Union College
Stephen Ainlay
Fordham University
Joseph M. McShane, S.J.
University at Buffalo - SUNY
John Simpson
Furman University
David Shi
University of Cincinnati
Nancy L. Zimpher
George Washington University
Steven Knapp
University of Denver
Robert Coombe
Georgia State University
Carl Patton
University of Detroit Mercy
Reverend Gerard L. Stockhausen, S.J
Georgian Court University
Rosemary E. Jeffries
University of Iowa
Sally Mason
Gettysburg College
Katherine Will
University of Kansas
Bob Hemenway
Grambling State University
Horace A. Judson
University of Louisville
James Ramsey
Hampshire College
Ralph J. Hexter
University of Massachusetts
Jack M. Wilson
Haverford College
Stephen Emerson
University of Mary Washington
Richard V. Hurley (Acting President)
Huntington University
G. Blair Dowden
University of New Mexico
David J. Schmidly
Illinois State University
Al Bowman
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Patricia A. Sullivan
Jewish Theological Seminary
Arnold Eisen
University of South Carolina
Andrew A. Sorensen
Johns Hopkins University
William R. Brody
University of Southern Maine
Joseph Wood (Interim President)
Johnson & Wales University
John Bowen
University of Southern Nevada
Harry Rosenberg
Kalamazoo College
Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Roger G. Brown
Kansas State University
Jon Wefald
The University of Texas at Austin
William Powers, Jr.
Kean University
Dawood Farahi
University of Toledo
Lloyd A. Jacobs
Kennesaw State University
Daniel S. Papp
University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Wiley
King's College
Rev. Thomas J. O'Hara
Valley City State University
Ellen-Earle Chaffee
Lake Forest College
Stephen D. Schutt
Vanderbilt University
Nicholas S. Zeppos (Interim Chancellor)
Linfield College
Thomas L. Hellie
Villanova University
Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA
Louisiana College
Joe W. Aguillard
Webster University
Richard Meyers
Loyola University Chicago
Michael Garanzini, S.J.
Wellesley College
H. Kim Bottomly
Lynn University
Kevin M. Ross
Western Connecticut State University
James W. Schmotter
Manhattanville College
Richard Berman
Western Illinois University
Alvin Goldfarb
Manchester Community College
Jonathan M. Daube
West Texas A&M University
J. Patrick O'Brien
McDaniel College
Joan Develin Coley
Wheaton College
Ronald A. Crutcher
Medgar Evers College - CUNY
Edison O. Jackson
Wilkes University
Joseph Gilmour
Mid-Continent University
Robert Imhoff
Xavier University
Michael J. Graham, S.J.
Millsaps College
Frances Lucas
Youngstown State University
David C. Sweet
Mitchell College
Mary Ellen Jukoski
 
Monmouth University
Paul G. Gaffney II
 

The appeal to U.S. college and university presidents to follow Bollinger's example came from nine of their colleagues:

Jehuda Reinharz, president, Brandeis University; Robert J. Birgeneau, chancellor, University of California, Berkeley; Richard Herman, chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Donna E. Shalala, president, University of Miami; Henry S. Bienen, president, Northwestern University; Graham B. Spanier, president, Pennsylvania State University; Lawrence S. Bacow, president, Tufts University; M. Lee Pelton, president, Willamette University; and Harold Shapiro, president emeritus, Princeton University.

AJC shares the concerns of the presidents who have signed the statement to date, and is facilitating distribution of the list of presidents who have publicly endorsed Bollinger's statement, which is reproduced below:

"As a citizen, I am profoundly disturbed by the recent vote by Britain's new University and College Union to advance a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. As a university professor and president, I find this idea utterly antithetical to the fundamental values of the academy, where we will not hold intellectual exchange hostage to the political disagreements of the moment. In seeking to quarantine Israeli universities and scholars this vote threatens every university committed to fostering scholarly and cultural exchanges that lead to enlightenment, empathy, and a much-needed international marketplace of ideas.

"At Columbia I am proud to say that we embrace Israeli scholars and universities that the UCU is now all too eager to isolate – as we embrace scholars from many countries regardless of divergent views on their government's policies. Therefore, if the British UCU is intent on pursuing its deeply misguided policy, then it should add Columbia to its boycott list, for we do not intend to draw distinctions between our mission and that of the universities you are seeking to punish. Boycott us, then, for we gladly stand together with our many colleagues in British, American and Israeli universities against such intellectually shoddy and politically biased attempts to hijack the central mission of higher education."