Mr. Dunn is a professor of history at San Diego State University and former president of the World History Association.

Dr. Marvin was an associate professor of medicine at Yale and president of the American Heart Association.

Bell was professor of zoology at King's College, a lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Hospital and president of the Linnean Society.

Freda Rebelsky, professor of psychology and president of the association's chapter at B.U., openly despises Mr. Silber.

Bateson is emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London since 2004.

James Gilbert, a professor of wildlife ecology and president of the faculty senate, said in an interview yesterday that the faculty was not unalterably opposed to distance learning.

Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia and past president of the American Historical Association, agrees.

Joseph Torrey (1797-1867) was an American professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont and acting president of that university for five years.

He was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University.

Sari Nuseibeh, a well-known Palestinian intellectual, is professor of philosophy and president of Al Quds University in Jerusalem.