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Title

The rise of Roosevelt University : presidential reflections / Theodore L. Gross.

Author

Gross, Theodore L.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.

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Description

xi, 234 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "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."
• "Drawing on private correspondence and conversations, essays, university documents, and other archival materials, Gross re-creates the highs and lows of his quest to make Roosevelt distinctive. His strategic plan included the appointment of senior executives and deans, the creation of a performing arts conservatory, the development of an educational alliance with other universities, online instruction, an honors program, a Chicago School of Real Estate, an MBA for Chinese students, the Partners in Corporate Education program, and the implementation of a second comprehensive campus. He describes the creation of the Albert A.
• Robin campus in Schaumburg and the realization of Roosevelt as a metropolitan university, creating a vivid portrait of the educational context of large community colleges throughout the northwest suburbs, the development of a community advisory board that helped secure funds, and the improved morale of faculty and administration."
• "More than a retelling of anecdotes and statistics, the volume provides a rare perspective on the intersection of higher education and politics in Chicago. Gross analyzes the different public and private universities in the city and in surrounding Cook County to describe their relationships with ethnicity, religion, class, and with city hall. He also covers the Daley political machine's influence on higher education, the spectacular growth of the western suburbs, and city versus suburban identities."--Jacket.

Subject

• Gross, Theodore L
• Roosevelt University > Presidents > Biography
• Geschichte 1988-1999
• College presidents > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226) and index.

Contents

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

ISBN

0809326078 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004014492^^

OCLC

• 55797726
• SCSB-11586785

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