Background
Edward D. Eddy was born May 10, 1921, at Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. Eddy came from a well-educated family - his father was a lawyer and his mother was a university professor - and he chose to make education his career.
Edward D. Eddy, University of Rhode Island.
Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Edward attended Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in humanities in 1944, and a Ph.D. in 1956.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Edward earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1946.
Edward D. Eddy was born May 10, 1921, at Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. Eddy came from a well-educated family - his father was a lawyer and his mother was a university professor - and he chose to make education his career.
Edward attended Cornell University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in humanities in 1944, and earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1946.
He went on to receive a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1956.
Eddy's first position was as associate director of the interfaith office at Cornell, where he stayed until 1949 before moving to the University of New Hampshire, where he was an instructor in English and assistant to the president. He continued moving upward there, serving as acting president and provost in 1955. He later served at both Chatham College and Pennsylvania State University.
He contributed articles to several professional journals and wrote books on education, including the academic classic Colleges for Our Land and Time, as well as The College Influence on Student Character and The Twelve-College Cost-Quality Study. He continued his activity in a number of education-related ventures such as the Providence Blueprint for Education after his retirement from the presidency at the University of Rhode Island in 1991. He died on June 18, 1998.
Quotations: Edward D. Eddy said on July9, 1986: ''Hopefully a university education gives us exposure to the people who count… Most of us get to know them through literature, history, the news, drama, “success stories,” or word of mouth. These are the people who believe so deeply that their actions are shaped by their beliefs. In the course of acting and believing they help make the world a better place for the rest of us… Lately we’re seen more examples of people who count, who are willing to say, “It doesn’t have to be this way.” Some of them speak up in South Africa and some in Rhode Island. The trained ear listens for their whisper or their shout.''
Edward D. Eddy had a wife, Mary.