Scholarly Leadership in Higher Education

An Intellectual History of James Bryant Conant

Professor Wayne J. Urban (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-21057-8 (ISBN)

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Urban provides an intellectual history of Harvard presidency of James Bryant Conant (1933-1953), situating it within the broader international landscape and drawing out the implication for the current state of higher education with reference to specific leadership policy issues in the sector. Throughout this volume, Urban explores the ways in which Conant achieved largely successful attempts to modernize Harvard by upgrading both its student body and its faculty. He explores the intellectual excellence agenda that Conant pursued both with students and academics, and the ramifications of this. He also considers the nature of Conant’s part-time handling of the role of president, the way he delegated campus control to his Provost, Paul Buck, and the ways the two operated together and separately. Urban also looks at Conant’s own intellectual breadth, as scientist and humanist, which showed itself prominently in his activities in pursuit of general education reform. Conant’s combination of intellect and agenda was unusual for a president in his own time, and is exceedingly rare, if not completely missing, in contemporary university presidencies. In exploring this innovative president’s time in office at Harvard, Urban offers pertinent ideas to today’s leaders of higher education.

Wayne J. Urban is Emeritus Professor at the University of Alabama, USA.

Series Editor's Foreword
1. Early Life and Educational Career
2. Presidential Vision and Priorities
3. Aspects of a Successful, Part-time Presidency
4. More than a President
5. Post-Presidency
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-350-21057-9 / 1350210579
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21057-8 / 9781350210578
Zustand	Neuware