FBI Works on Its Image on College Campuses

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By MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press


WASHINGTON —

The idea of academics collaborating with the FBI might once have aroused loud complaints on some campuses where agents had spied on student protesters and government institutions were viewed with mistrust.

But when FBI Director Robert Mueller announced he had recruited 17 university presidents to offer advice on the culture of higher education, there were a few laudatory e-mails and a couple of mentions in campus newspapers, but mostly silence, according to several school presidents.

The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board planned to hold its first meeting Friday in Washington. Set to attend are representatives from schools across the political spectrum, from the more liberal University of Wisconsin and its history of protest to the more conservative Texas A&M University with its Corps of Cadets.

The board includes former CIA Director Robert Gates, Texas A&M's president, and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a member of the Sept. 11 commission and president of the New School University in New York. <snip>

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