Controversy Mars Connecticut College Hire

Connecticut College last week named trustee Les Wong interim president to replace Katherine Bergeron, who is stepping down at the end of June in the wake of a fundraising fiasco that prompted campus protests earlier this year. Faculty are not happy with the choice. They don’t question Wong’s credentials; he previously led San Francisco State University and Northern Michigan University and served a stint as interim president of the University of Southern Colorado. But some have raised concerns about the interim search process, which engaged a firm co-owned by a fellow member of the Board of Trustees. Allegations of antisemitism from Wong’s time as president of SFSU have also entered the conversation.