Holding the center : memoirs of a life in higher education /

"Howard Wesley Johnson has been associated with MIT for more than forty years and been a major influence on the modernization and expansion of many of its programs. He will be most remembered as a management educator and as MIT's president during the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s. T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Howard Wesley, 1922-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
Temas:
Johnson, Howard Wesley, > 1922-2009.
Johnson, Howard Wesley, > 1922-
Johnson, Howard Wesley, > 1922-2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Presidents > Biography.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology > History.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Présidents > Biographies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Histoire.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
College presidents > Massachusetts > Biography.
Présidents et recteurs d'université > Massachusetts > Biographies.
EDUCATION > Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
College presidents
Presidents
Massachusetts
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / John S. Reed
  • 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
  • Registry of Names.

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