{"id":1087,"date":"2026-05-15T18:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:40:03","slug":"bards-board-voted-to-end-botsteins-tenure-as-president-after-independent-review-of-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Bard\u2019s board voted to end Botstein\u2019s tenure as president after independent review of Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Botstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein were released<\/p>\n<p>Bard College\u2019s board of trustees \u201cvoted to end\u201d the 51-year tenure of Leon Botstein, the school\u2019s president, last month after board members were presented with the results of an independent review of his relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, according to emails seen by the Guardian. Botstein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/01\/president-bard-college-resign-leon-botstein-jeffrey-epstein\">framed<\/a> his departure as a long-planned retirement in a statement on 1 May.<\/p>\n<p>The move appears to have created a rift within the liberal arts college\u2019s board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/bard-college-board-leon-botstein-retirement-jeffrey-epstein\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Botstein announced his retirement on the day the results of the inquiry into his connections with Epstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}