UMass-Boston Dean Continues to Take Heat; Berklee Names Cultural-Diversity VP; UCLA Fills Chair on Japanese Internment; Northeastern U. Picks a President

Instead of serving older, working-class students -- including immigrants and others from minority groups -- the dean wants to attract traditional- age undergraduates who can afford to pay full freight, professors say. The University of California at Los Angeles has nabbed a top Asian-American-studies scholar from a sister campus to fill the nation's first endowed chair to focus on Japanese-American internment during World War II. Joseph Aoun, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California, has been named the new president of Northeastern University.