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The rise of Roosevelt University : presidential reflections

"Underscoring professional and educational issues pertinent to higher learning at universities across the country, Theodore L. Gross's memoir of his years in academia chronicles his successful fourteen-year presidency at Chicago's Roosevelt University, a period of leadership that resulted in an upsurge of fund-raising, sharp increases in enrollment and endowment, and the transformation of an urban campus into a metropolitan university." "Beginning with a description of his childhood and adolescent education and experiences, Gross recalls his years as a faculty member and academic administrator at the City College of New York from 1958 to 1978, when the college was moving from selective admissions to open enrollment."
Print Book, English, ©2005
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, ©2005
Biographies
xi, 234 pages ; 24 cm
9780809326075, 0809326078
55797726
1. Prologue to a Presidency
2. The Presidency
3. Revitalizing Roosevelt
4. The Art of Fund-raising
5. The Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University
6. The Schaumburg Campus
7. The Chancellorship
8. Final Notes