An Academic Life: A Memoir (The William G. Bowen Series)

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A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university

Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life on the planet of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler’s Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father used to be a professor at Yale University. She has studied and taught at one of the most world’s most prestigious universities. She used to be the first woman to serve as provost of Yale. In 1978, she became the first woman president of a major research university when she used to be appointed to lead the University of Chicago, a position she held for fifteen years. In 1991, Gray used to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in recognition of her strange contributions to education.

An Academic Life is a candid self-portrait by one of academia’s most respected trailblazers. Gray describes what it used to be like to grow up as a child of refugee parents, and reflects at the changing status of women in the academic world. She discusses the migration of intellectuals from Nazi-held Europe and the transformative role these exiles played in American higher education–and how the émigré experience in The us transformed their own lives and work. She sheds light at the character of university communities, how they’re structured and administered, and the balance they are searching for between tradition and innovation, teaching and research, and undergraduate and professional learning.

An Academic Life speaks to the fundamental issues of purpose, academic freedom, and governance that arise over and over again in higher education, and that pose sharp challenges to the independence and scholarly integrity of every new generation.

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