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John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, the Times, and the College Presidency

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This book examines the life-long career of John Kemeny as a teacher, educator, and president. Nelson presents a portrait of his leadership at Dartmouth College during the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and 1970s and his resolute commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, equity, and justice.

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ISBN-13:	9781498573238
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.27(w) x 9.32(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stephen J. Nelson is professor of education and educational leadership at Bridgewater State University and senior scholar in the Leadership Alliance at Brown University.

Foreword: Jenny and Rob Kemeny Reflect Preface A Prologue: The “Curious Turns” of “An Interesting Life” Acknowledgments Chapter One: Voyage from Professor to President Chapter Two: The Crucible of Kent State: Crisis for the Nation and a Young Presidency Chapter Three: The Sea Change to Coeducation at Dartmouth Chapter Four: Clashes in a Changing Culture: New Diversity and the March to Equal Opportunity Chapter Five: Fiscal Footing and Trials: Economic Shocks of the 1970s Chapter Six: Navigating Affairs Inside the Gates: The Horrors of “Animal House, ” the Indian Symbol, and the Dartmouth Review Chapter Seven: Voice in the Public Square: The Three Mile Island Commission Chapter Eight: The Perch of the Presidential Pulpit: Leadership Inside and Outside the Gates Postscript: The Right Stuff: The Man and the Times Bibliography About the Author

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The range of communities whose members will gain important insights from reading this book is its singular feature – a product of the person who John Kemeny was, the charged times in which he served as a university president and the skill of the author who writes about both. For presidents and administrators who lead colleges and students about to go to college, for journalists who write about education and faculty who provide that education, for trustees who oversee academic institutions and parents who entrust their children to those institutions, for politicians who make educational policy and voters who elect those politicians and certainly for those who are members of the Dartmouth community and those who know it first-hand from the outside, this work will inform and provoke. The reader will finish with a stimulating mix of information, insights and anecdotes about the person and about the times in which he lived and worked.

Greg Prince

Easily the smartest person I have ever known is Dartmouth President John Kemeny. So, too, much the finest, most decisive and influential college president I have witnessed in action is John Kemeny. But John Kemeny was not simply a smart and markedly successful college president. He was also and always a professor, a master teacher. And his leadership style was just that, the style of a compassionate, decisive, witty master teacher. Now, at great long last, we have what we have lacked, what we have missed and longed for: a sensitive, well researched, engaging biography by veteran student of the American college presidency, Stephen J. Nelson. Reading Professor Nelson’s biography is the surest way to come to know just what a great man was John Kemeny.

Robert A. Oden

A compelling account of John Kemeny’s leadership during one of the most transformative and tumultuous periods in Dartmouth’s history and the history of higher education in the U.S. This biography exposes the personal side of someone who is a hero and role model of mine – a mathematician who not only sparked a personal computing revolution, but continued to teach as President of the college while guiding the institution through a period of dramatic change. Anyone seeking to understand how brilliant scholars like Kemeny come to lead with such impact will glean much from the insights afforded in this book.

Philip J. Hanlon

John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, the Times, and the College Presidency

John G. Kemeny and Dartmouth College: The Man, the Times, and the College Presidency

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