Our Contentious Universities - Rudenstine, Neil L.
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"This book describes the current state of American higher education. It is partly a memoir, and partly a personal history of Neil L. Rudenstine. The current volume considers whether the substantial nature and scale of university changes during the past half-century or more indicate that we have entered a new era when the probability of frequent protest and disruption is more likely than before"--

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"This book describes the current state of American higher education. It is partly a memoir, and partly a personal history of Neil L. Rudenstine. The current volume considers whether the substantial nature and scale of university changes during the past half-century or more indicate that we have entered a new era when the probability of frequent protest and disruption is more likely than before"--
Autorenporträt
Neil L. Rudenstine graduated from Princeton University (1956), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, earned his PhD in English Literature at Harvard, and remained on Harvard's faculty until 1968. After two decades as Professor, Dean, and Provost at Princeton, he was President of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001. He was a trustee of the Barnes Foundation and was chair of the boards of ARTstor, the New York Public Library, the Rockefeller Archive Center, as well as vice-chair of the board of the J. Paul Getty Trust. His several books include Sidney's Poetic Development; English Poetic Satire (with G.S. Rousseau); In Pursuit of the PhD (with W. G. Bowen); and Pointing Our Thoughts. He lives in Massachusetts.