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Thomas Ehrlich was born in Massachusetts and attended Harvard Law School. Despite his legal background, he held a variety of jobs including assistant to the undersecretary of the state, president of the Legal Services Corporation, and head of the Foreign Aid program. He became president of Indiana University in 1987. Ehrlich discusses his presidential agenda, preference for a "responsibility-centered" management style, Indiana University's Indiana University regional campuses, the financial situation at the university, and the conflicts over teaching versus research.

Dr. Charlotte Gerrard was born in Stamford, CT on March 10, 1928. In 1965 she was hired as a French professor and continued in the position until her retirement. She discusses cultural changes she obserrved in her time at the university, her teaching philsophosies and research areas, and the development of the Strasbourg study abroad program. Further she discusses the community that developed among faculty in the department and her high and low moments teaching.