academic freedom. The strike ended without any reinstatements, but led to the widespread unionization of public college faculty in the New York City area. In 1970, arbitrators ruled that the university had not acted improperly.
In 2010, federal prosecutors arrested Cecilia Chang, dean of the school's Institute of Asian Studies, and charged her with embezzling money from the university, bribing students with scholarships in exchange for forced labor, tax evasion, and false statements to federal agents. Chang, a graduate-school alumna from Taiwan who naturalized in 1989, began directing the Asian Center and acted as a fundraiser in 1977. On Monday, November 5, 2012, she testified in her own trial and committed suicide at age 59 the next day. Anne Hendershot of Crisis Magazine wrote that the information revealed that described Chang giving material benefits to other members of the administration was "even more damaging to the reputation of St. John's University."
== Organization and administration ==
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