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Keynote
Speaker
SANFORD J. UNGAR
The President of Goucher College
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Sanford J. Ungar became the tenth President of Goucher
College on July 1, 2001. Founded in 1885, Goucher is a traditional
liberal arts college in Baltimore, Maryland, with 1350 undergraduate
students and several hundred others studying for Master’s
degrees. Originally a women’s college, Goucher has been coeducational
since 1986.
Prior to assuming his position at Goucher, Mr. Ungar was Director of the Voice
of America, the U. S. government’s principal international broadcasting
agency, for two years. In that capacity, he oversaw more than 900 hours a
week of VOA broadcasts in English and 52 other languages to some 100 million
American University in Washington, DC.
He is the author, most recently, of Fresh
Blood: The New American Immigrants, which was the result
of more than four years of research among immigrant groups around the United
States. A previous book, The Papers & The Papers: An Account of the Legal
and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers, won the George Polk Award
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Another, Africa: The People
and Politics of an Emerging Continent, was a best
seller in the 1980s. Mr. Ungar’s other books include Estrangement:
America and the World, a collection of essays he
edited while a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, and FBI: An Uncensored
Look Behind the Walls, published in the 1970s and
still regarded as a
valuable source
on that agency and its history. |
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Mr. Ungar’s experience in print and broadcast journalism spans almost four
decades. Between 1980 and 1983, he was the host of several programs on National
Public Radio, including the award-winning “All Things Considered.” He
ahs also often appeared on public, commercial, and cable television, frequently
as a commentator or as the moderator of debates.
The author of many magazine and newspaper articles on topics of political
and international interest, Mr. Ungar has spoken frequently around
the United States
and in other countries on issues of American foreign policy and domestic politics,
free expression, human rights, and immigration.
Sanford Ungar has been Washington editor of The Atlantic, managing editor
of Foreign Policy magazine, and a staff writer for The
Washington Post.
He was a
correspondent for United Press International in Paris and for Newsweek in Nairobi,
and for many years contributed to The Economist.
Mr. Ungar obtained his B.A. in Government magna cum laude from Harvard
College
and a Master’s degree in International History from the London School of
Economics and Political Science, where he was a Rotary Foundation fellow. In
May 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Wilkes University
in his hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He has traveled widely in Europe,
Africa, Latin America, and Asia: he is fluent in French and also speaks Spanish.
He serves on the boards of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, the
Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, and the World Trade Center Institute of
Baltimore. He is on the executive committee of the Maryland Independent College
and University Association. Mr. Ungar is also a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the International Institute of Stretegic Studies, and the Society
of Professional Jounalists. In June 2000, at its annual convention in Buenos
Aires, the Rotary Foundation gave him its Scholar Alumni Achievement Award.
Born in 1945, Mr. Ungar lives in Baltimore and Washington with his
wife, Beth Ungar, M.D. They have 24-year-old daughter, Lida, and
a 21-year-old son, Philip.
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