FOREIGN SCHOLARS DO IMPROVE UNIVERSITY.(MAIN)

Byline: SUE R. FAERMAN University at Albany The writer is dean of Undergraduate Studies and professor of Public Administration ies and professor of Public Administration. -

Alan Wechsler's March 14 article ``When words collide in class'' is a piece that should have stopped at the headline, ``Some UAlbany students say they have trouble understanding foreign instructors.''

Any university that has strong graduate and research programs and a large undergraduate population enlists the teaching and research assistance of its graduate students. This includes such universities as Harvard, MIT and Stanford. At those same universities, highly selected international …