Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Samuel Johnson, President of King's College, His Career and Writings: The churchman
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College, His Career and Writings: Founding King's College
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College, His Career and Writings: Autobiography and letters
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College: The churchman
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College: The churchman
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Churchman
Author: Iconic Leaders in Higher Education
Author: Roger L. GeigerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135151394X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and university presidents who acquired iconic qualities that transcend mere identification with their institution.The volume begins with Roger L. Geiger's observation that creating and controlling one's image requires managing publicity. Andrea Turpin describes how Mount Holyoke Seminar's evolution into a modern women's college required reshaping the image of Mary Lyon, its founder. Roger L. Geiger and Nathan M. Sorber show how College of Philadelphia provost William Smith's partisan politics and patronage tainted the college he symbolized. Joby Topper reveals how presidents Seth Low of Columbia and Francis Patton of Princeton mastered the modern art of publicity.Katherine Chaddock explains how John Erskine the Columbia University English professor responsible for the first Great Books program and his unusual career inverted the normal route to iconic status. In contrast, Christian Anderson's analysis of John G. Bowman, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, shows how he substituted architectural vision for academic leadership. James Capshew explores the background that made Herman Wells a revered leader of Indiana University. Nancy Diamond details how building Brandeis University involved a challenging series of decisions successfully navigated by founding president Abram Sachar. Finally, Ethan Schrum depicts how Clark Kerr's controversial understanding of the role of contemporary universities was formed by his earlier career in industrial relations. This study of iconic leaders probes new dimensions of leadership and the construction of institutional images.
Samuel Johnson, President of King's College
Author: Samuel JohnsonFor the Union of Evangelical Christendom
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042022
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on their love of consensus and their position as the church of American elites. They have, in the process, often forgotten that during the nineteenth century their church was racked by a divisive struggle that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the Episcopal Church. On one side of this struggle was a powerful and aggressive Evangelical party who hoped to make the Episcopal Church into the democratic head of "the sisterhood of Evangelical Churches" in America; on the other side was the Oxford Movement, equally powerful and aggressive but committed to a range of Romantic principles which celebrated disillusion and disgust with evangelicalism and democracy alike. The resulting conflict--over theology, liturgy, and, above all, culture--led to the schism of 1873, in which many Evangelicals left the church to form the Reformed Episcopal Church. For the Union of Evangelical Christendom tells this largely forgotten story using the case of the Reformed Episcopalians to open up the ironic anatomy of American religion at the turn of the century. Today, as the Episcopal Church once again finds itself enmeshed in cultural and religious crisis, the remembrance of a similar crisis a century ago brings an eerily prophetic ring to this remarkable work of cultural and religious history.