Description
The tale traces the progress of the Bush School from its initial challenges to protected funding, students, and professors to its departure from the College of Liberal Arts as an independent unit with its own dean and faculty, and during the creation of its current curricula and policy-oriented research institutes. Insider stories and candid photographs illustrate how President Bush’s focused personal interest and involvement with the college and its students have contributed to the many developments and successes that the Bush School has enjoyed.
With carefully researched narrative and absorbing, in the back of-the-scenes details, Called to Serve documents the primary twenty years of the Bush School’s brief but significant history and looks to the promising future that awaits this widely respected academic enterprise.