That year, he and other faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia Law School, protesting the Columbia trustees' attempts to convert Columbia law school to the case method, left to found New York Law School.

LEE C. BOLLINGER will not become president at Columbia University until this summer, but the Columbia trustees approved his first appointment this week.

Mr. Stern graduated from Columbia Law School in 1966 and has been a Columbia trustee since 1992.

The Next Step Her nomination is to be put before the Columbia trustees on Monday for formal appointment.

"This Close should have a life of its own," said Henry L. King, president of the cathedral trustees, chairman emeritus of the Columbia trustees and senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

The new president, George E. Rupp, presented the changes, which include the replacement of three deans and a vice president, to the Columbia trustees at their quarterly meeting.

In the late 19th century, at Edison's suggestion, the Columbia trustees established a department of electrical engineering with two faculty members: Francis Bacon Crocker and Michael Idvorsky Pupin.

By 1968, Mr. Hoving was no longer commissioner, but a Columbia trustee bitterly fingered him as the one who planted "the germ" of the student uprising.

She overcame the opposition of the Columbia trustees with a brilliant maneuver: she named the college after F. A. P. Barnard, Columbia's recently deceased president and a strong advocate for coeducation.

He was appointed provost and vice president for health services by the Columbia trustees in March 1981.