THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION August 29, 2014 A Missionary for the Liberal Arts Peg Peoples Faculty members from Al Quds Bard Honors College and Al-Quds U. cooperate to solve a mathematical puzzle at a faculty-development workshop offered on the university's West Bank campus by Bard's Institute for Writing & Thinking. By Karin Fischer Annandale-on-Hudson, ■ From an early age, Leon Botstein's life was shaped by two powerful forces: fascism and educa- tion. His parents fled Nazi persecution in Poland and, after World War II, settled in the United States. Mr. Botstein's mother and father eventually joined the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, leaving an indelible impression on their young son. "My family owes everything to the dynamism of American universities," he says. Today, Mr. Botstein is president of Bard College, and his past has influenced the liberal-arts institution's singular approach to international engagement. EFTA01164870