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Holding the Center : Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (355 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262276313
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Holding the CenterDDC classification:
  • 378.744/4 B
LOC classification:
  • T171.M49 J62 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Holding the Center -- Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Growing Up in South Chicago during the -- Depression -- College and Going to War -- The University of Chicago after the War: -- Student and Faculty Member -- Becoming a Part of the Massachusetts -- Institute of Technology -- The School of Industrial Management -- Becomes the Sloan School -- Early Years as President of MIT -- Grim Years for the Nation and -- the Universities -- Education in the Midst of Turmoil: The -- Close of a Presidency -- Chairing the MIT Corporation and Other -- Challenges -- Boston s Museum of Fine Arts -- in a New Era -- MIT Goes On -- Coda: A Note for Students on Leadership -- Sources -- Registry of Names -- Index -- Picture Credits.
Summary: Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations.
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Holding the Center -- Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Growing Up in South Chicago during the -- Depression -- College and Going to War -- The University of Chicago after the War: -- Student and Faculty Member -- Becoming a Part of the Massachusetts -- Institute of Technology -- The School of Industrial Management -- Becomes the Sloan School -- Early Years as President of MIT -- Grim Years for the Nation and -- the Universities -- Education in the Midst of Turmoil: The -- Close of a Presidency -- Chairing the MIT Corporation and Other -- Challenges -- Boston s Museum of Fine Arts -- in a New Era -- MIT Goes On -- Coda: A Note for Students on Leadership -- Sources -- Registry of Names -- Index -- Picture Credits.

Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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