--- title: Leon Botstein | TIME description: Leon Botstein is President of Bard College canonical: https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Leon Botstein ## Leon Botstein _Leon Botstein is President of Bard College_ ## Leon Botstein *  Dec 13, 2016 ### [The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama](https://time.com/4597969/election-racism-obama/) And our challenge is to confront the hypocrisy in our national ideals [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 7, 2014 ### [College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud](https://time.com/15199/college-president-sat-is-part-hoax-and-part-fraud/) The president of Bard College says recent changes to the SAT are motivated by the competition that C... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/","name":"Leon Botstein"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/"},"name":"Leon Botstein","jobTitle":null,"description":"Leon Botstein is President of Bard College","url":"https://time.com/author/leon-botstein/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```