The Rise of Roosevelt University
Subtitle: Presidential Reflections
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University; Southern Illinois University Press
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780809326075
Subjects: Biography: general; Universities / polytechnics; United States; Higher; Education; University presidents; Biography / Autobiography; Roosevelt University; Illinois; Leadership; Educators; Personal Memoirs; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / State & Local; College presidents; Biography; Gross, Theodore L; Presidents
Description: Underscoring professional and educational issues pertinent to higher learning at universities across the country, Theodore L. Gross’s memoir of his years in academia chronicles his successful fourteen-year presidency at Chicago’s Roosevelt University, a period of leadership that resulted in an upsurge of fund-raising, sharp increases in enrollment and endowment, and the transformation of an urban campus into a metropolitan university.