Background
HORN, Francis was born on November 18, 1908 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Frederick Horn and Orpha Ford (Bennett) Horn.
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A professor, dean, and college president for more than twenty years, Francis H. Horn is one of America’s most penetrating educational analysts. And while in this collection of sixteen of his most significant and controversial papers he addresses himself primarily to educational adÂministrators, the nonspecialist can read what he has to say with pleasure and profit. Extremely well written and jargon free, the essays represent the tenets of Mr. Horn’s main beliefs, many of which go against contemporary conventional views.  The papers are divided into four main areas: objectives, problems, administration, and students. Though there is a certain amount of recurÂrence of ideas throughout the essays, especially of Mr. Horn’s deeply-held beliefs, the thrust of his thought is objective, patient, provocative, and challenging examination of the realities of the present as well as the hopes of the future.
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HORN, Francis was born on November 18, 1908 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Frederick Horn and Orpha Ford (Bennett) Horn.
AB, Dartmouth, 1930; Master of Arts, University Virginia, 1934. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy (Sterling fellow 1946-1947), Yale University, 1949.
Doctor of Laws, University Hartford, 1955. Doctor of Laws, Providence College, 1959. Doctor of Laws, Dickinson College, 1961.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Southern Illinois University, 1958. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Ricker College, 1963. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, University Nevada, Las Vegas, 1969.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Molloy College, 1971. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Mount St. Mary College, 1973. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Pratt Institute, 1974.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Albertus Magnus College, 1974. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, University New Haven, 1974. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, American College in Greece, 1978.
Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Moore College Art, 1986. Doctor of Civil Law, Pace University, 1961. Doctor of Letters, Ohio Northern University, 1961.
Doctor of Letters, Kon Kuk University, Korea, 1973. Doctor of Science Education, Bryant College, 1961. Pd.D., Rhode Island College, 1962.
Doctor of Laws, Brown University, 1963. Doctor of Laws, University New Hampshire, 1964. Doctor of Laws, Defiance College, 1966.
Doctor of Laws, University Maine, 1967. Doctor of Laws, D'Youville College, 1968. Doctor of Laws, Wagner College, 1969.
Doctor of Laws, U.R.I., 1969. Doctor of Education, Western New England College, 1966. Doctor of Humanities, Windham College, 1965.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Chinese Cultural University, Taiwan, 1973.
Instructor English and history American University in Cairo, Egypt, 1930-1933. Assistant dean Junior College of Commerce (now Quinnipiac College), New Haven, 1936-1937, acting dean, 1937-1938, dean, 1938-1942. Assistant dean Biarritz American University, France, 1945-1946.
Editor reports cooperative study Lincoln (Nebraska) schools, 1946-1947. Dean evening division, director summer session, associate professor education Johns Hopkins University, 1947-1951, acting chairman department education, 1951, visiting professor education, 1952-1953. Executive secretary American Association Higher Education, 1951-1953.
President Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1953-1957, president emeritus, 1984. Visiting distinguished professor higher education Southern Illinois University, 1957-1958. President University Rhode Island, 1958-1967, president emeritus, 1979.
President Commission on Indiana Colleges and University, State of New York, 1967-1971, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, 1971-1974, president emeritus, 1974. Executive vice president Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, 1974-1976. President American College of Switzerland, Leysin, 1977-1979, president emeritus, 1993.
Vice president, director British campus New England College, Sussex, England, 1980-1981. Distinguished visiting scholar, adviser to president Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, 1982, 84-85.
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Author: Challenge and Perspective in Higher Education, 1971. Editor: College and University Bull, 1951-1953, Current Issues in Higher Edn, 1952, 53, Literary Masterpieces of the Western World, 1953, Twenty Five Years in the Wide, Wide World, 1955, Go Forth, Be Strong, 1978. Contributor: educational Journals New York Times Book Review.
Honorary trustee Theta Delta Chi Educational Foundation. Board directors Near East Foundation. Past chairman board trustees United Board Christian Higher Education Asia.
Member national advisory council Center for Study Presidency, past secretary-treasurer, founding trustee emeritus. Honorary trustee University Rhode Island Foundation. Board fellow American Graduate School International Management.
Member National Council Americans for Mid East Understanding. American Council United Nations University. Board directors Health Care Review, Inc.
Member advisory board United States English Director, 1984-1993. Tax assessor Kingston Fire District Lieutenant colonel Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member National Education Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Theta Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Delta Sigma.
Gardening, travel, stamp collecting.
Married Xenia Beliavsky, June 8, 1935 (deceased January 1995). Children: Michael Serge, Barbara Ann Horn Schaefer, Elizabeth Marie.