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| | Education Update - Chancellor Matthew Goldstein Brings Change to CUNY |
 | | Recently, an overflow crowd of the city’s power elite in education and business came to hear Goldstein speak at the Harvard Club, perhaps because, as Seymour Fliegel, president of the Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association, host of the event, explained, “He always announces something, and the amazing thing is, it always happens. |
 | | Goldstein is determined to find out “if we are attracting the most able students and, if not, why,” and “why teachers start with the best of intentions and leave.” He is “convinced if we start fresh we can do better” and cites basic changes needed such as improved compensation and better conditions. |
 | | Goldstein worries that college students are moving away from science. |
| educationupdate.com /archives/2005/february/html/Col-Chancellor.html (475 words) |
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