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Ex-interim chancellor reports on 'adventure in Wonderland'.(University of Massachusetts at Amherst deputy chancellor Dr. Marcellette Williams )

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Between state budget crunches and terrorist attacks, 2001-02 was a tough year all around. When University of Massachusetts at Amherst deputy chancellor Dr. Marcellette Williams took office as interim chancellor for the year, she found she'd followed Lewis Carroll's "Alice" into a surreal world where nothing worked by ordinary rules.

In June 2002 in East Lansing MI, where Williams began her academic career years ago, she described her adventures in Wonderland in a luncheon address to the Michigan ACE Network for Women.

When she first interviewed for a position at UMass Amherst, flagship of the Massachusetts system, they asked if she was bothered by the ...

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