Iconic leaders in higher education
By: Roger L. Geiger, editor
Series: Perspectives on the history of higher education -- v. 28
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781412818599
Subjects: College presidents; Biography; Universities and colleges; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction: iconic leaders of higher education / Roger L. Geiger; title: Tarnished icon: William Smith and the College of Philadelphia / Roger L. Geiger and Nathan M. Sorber; title: Memories of Mary: changing interpretations of the founder in the secularization process of Mount Holyoke Seminary and College, 1837-1937 / Andrea L. Turpin; title: College presidents, public image, and the popular press: a comparative study of Francis l. Patton of Princeton and Seth Low of Columbia, 1888-1902 / Joby Topper; title: The making of a celebrity President: John Erskine and the Juilliard School / Katherine Chaddock; title: Building an icon: the rise and fall of John G. Bowman, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, 1921-1945 / Christian K. Anderson; title: Encounters with genius loci: Herman Wells at/and/of Indiana University / James H. Capshew; title: Clark Kerr's early career, social science, and the American University / Ethan Schrum; title: The "host at last": Abram Sachar and the establishment of Brandeis University / Nancy Diamond.