The trustees of Brandeis University have announced the appointment of Dr. Marver H. Bernstein, a political scientist and Jewish communal leader, as the fourth president of the 23-year-old Jewish-sponsored university. Dr. Bernstein, who has been since 1969 chairman of the national commission of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, is professor at Princeton University. He was the first dean of the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1964 to 1969. He succeeds Charles Schottland, 65, who has been president on an interim basis since the resignation of Morris Abram in March, 1970.
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