Opinion ID: 749306
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Heading: Stern's Qualifications

Text: 6 Stern received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1972 and was hired by Columbia in 1978 for a part-time position in the Department. In that position, he taught Spanish and Portuguese, helped to develop the Spanish Program for medical students at the University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and ran the Department's summer language program. For this work, Stern received high praise for both his teaching and his administrative abilities. In 1989, Stern was named director of the University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Spanish Program. 7 By 1992, Stern had some 25 years' experience in teaching college-level courses in Spanish and Portuguese language and literature. He had served on the editorial boards of several professional journals, had edited more than 40 college-level textbooks on Spanish language and literature, and had published his own Spanish and Portuguese grammar textbooks and scholarly works.