Precipice or Crossroads?: Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century

List of Contributors

Contributors caitlin callaghan is an executive communications specialist at the University of california office of the president. Prior to joining Uc, she worked for two and a half years at d. e. shaw research in New York city. a san Francisco native, callaghan holds a Ba degree from stanford University, an Mst degree from the University of oxford, and a Phd in Medieval studies from cornell University. coy F. cross ii authored the Morrill biography, Justin Smith Morrill: Father of the Land-Grant Colleges (Michigan state University Press) after extensive research into Morrill’s life, experiences, and accomplishments. dr. cross, employed as an U.s. air Force historian from 1988 until 2007, received his Phd in United states diplomatic History from the University of california, santa Barbara. He also holds an Ma in United states and american civil War History from california state University, stanislaus , and a Ba from Florida state University. dr. cross has authored several other books and monographs, including his most recent, Lincoln’s Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships, published by Northern illinois University Press in 2007. Michael M. crow became the sixteenth president of arizona state University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of asU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities, an institution that combines the highest levels of academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact—a model he terms the “New american University.” Under his leadership asU has established major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as 283 284 coNTriBUTors the Biodesign institute, Global institute of sustainability (Gios), and more than a dozen new transdisciplinary schools, and witnessed an unprecedented academic infrastructure expansion, near-tripling of research expenditures, and attainment of record levels of diversity in the student body. He was previously executive vice provost of columbia University , where he served as chief strategist of columbia’s research enterprise and technology transfer operations. a fellow of the National academy of Public administration, and member of the council on Foreign relations and U.s. department of commerce National advisory council on innovation and entrepreneurship, he is the author of books and articles analyzing science and technology policy and the design of knowledge enterprises . crow received his Phd in Public administration (science and Technology Policy) from the Maxwell school of citizenship and Public affairs, syracuse University, in 1985. williaM B. DaBars is research Fellow for University design in the office of the President, arizona state University. He has served in various research capacities for the University of southern california, University of california, santa Barbara, and Getty research institute, where he participated in editorial projects focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century aesthetic and architectural theory. He has also served as an editorial consultant for the Getty conservation institute and University of colorado, Boulder. He received a Phd in History from the University of california, Los angeles. His dissertation and current research focus on the american research university. JaMes J. DuDerstaDt is president emeritus and University Professor of science and engineering at the University of Michigan. a graduate of Yale and caltech, dr. duderstadt’s teaching and research areas include nuclear science, applied physics, cyber infrastructure, and science and education policy. He has served as chair of numerous National academy and federal commissions, including the National science Board and the Policy and Global affairs division of the National research council. at Michigan he currently directs the science, Technology, and Public Policy program and the Millennium Project, a research center concerned with the impact of advanced technologies on society. Daniel Mark Fogel served as the twenty-fifth president of the University of Vermont for nine years, beginning on July 1, 2002. during his Contributors 285 tenure the university expanded significantly, with a 40 percent enrollment increase, while bringing in the academically strongest and most diverse student body in institutional history. at the same time, research productivity grew by 80 percent, the university’s endowment nearly doubled, and the campus was physically transformed with new land acquisitions and a major building program. Before coming to UVM, he was executive vice chancellor and provost at Louisiana state University. a productive literary scholar and poet, Fogel holds a tenured professorship in english at UVM (and is professor emeritus at LsU). He was the founding editor of The Henry James Review and a co-founder of the Henry James society. He has produced seven...