Holding the center : memoirs of a life in higher education / / Howard Wesley Johnson
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| Autore: |
Johnson Howard Wesley <1922-2009.>
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| Titolo: |
Holding the center : memoirs of a life in higher education / / Howard Wesley Johnson
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378.744/4 |
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| Soggetto topico: | College presidents - Massachusetts |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Holding the center |
| ISBN: | 0-262-27631-3 |
| 0-585-07875-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828545903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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