Mr. Mead is a professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College.
Bard College offers a program that allows eligible students to pay tuition at a rate comparable to a public university in their home states.
He also highlighted Achebe's "extraordinary generosity of time and spirit" during more than 20 years as a member of the Bard College community, adding that he will be deeply missed.
Three Fed officials are slated to speak this week, followed by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who will give the commencement address at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts this Saturday.
The actress "is so pale and not moving in there that she looks like she's dead, " said Robbie von Kampen, 20, a philosophy major at Bard College, north of New York City.
In 1990, a car accident in Lagos left Mr. Achebe paralyzed from the waist down, and sent him to Bard College in New York, an easier setting than Nigeria for a wheelchair-constrained author.
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is also a sculptor, and therefore "he has an incredible range, a lifetime of experiences and a passion for all types of arts, " she says.
And, believe it or not, he employed many former convicts to give them another chance at surviving without resorting to crime, which was a byproduct of a daring project he funded for Bard College in the prisons.
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In the course of a long academic career, Achebe took up university posts in Nigeria and overseas, including teaching at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he was professor of Africana Studies, and Bard College in New York.
Although Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, finds the Venezuelan state-funded, national system of youth orchestras admirable, he does not believe the model can be identically copied in the United States.
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