President-to-Be Sees Advantages for Small Colleges in Efforts to Diversify

"I never wanted to be an academic," said Mr. Gonzalez, who was appointed last month as president of Kalamazoo College. When Jorge G. Gonzalez trekked to the United States from his native Monterrey, Mexico, in the 1980s to continue his study of economics, he had no interest in working in higher education.