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Shapiro, Harold Tafler was born on June 8, 1935 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Maxwell and Mary (Tafler) Shapiro.
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Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This thought-provoking book by Harold Shapiro, former president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and Chairman of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission under President Bill Clinton, explores the role the modern university should play as an ethical force and societal steward. Based on the 2003 Clark Kerr lectures, A Larger Sense of Purpose draws from Shapiro's twenty-five years of experience leading major research universities and takes up key topics of debate in higher education. What are the nature and objectives of a liberal education? How should universities address the increasing commercialization not only of intercollegiate sports but of education and research? What are the university's responsibilities for the moral education of students? The book begins with an expanded history of the modern research institution followed by essays on ethics, the academic curriculum, the differences between private and public higher education, the future of intellectual property rights, and the changing relationship between the nation's universities and the for-profit sector. Shapiro calls for universities to be more accountable morally as well as academically. He urges scientists not only to educate others about the potential and limitations of science but also to acknowledge the public's distress over the challenges presented by the very success of the scientific enterprise. He advocates for a more intimate connection between professional training and the liberal arts--in the hope that future doctors, lawyers, and business executives will be educated in ethics and the social sciences as well as they are in anatomy, torts, and leveraged buyouts. Candid, timely, and provocative, A Larger Sense of Purpose demands the attention of not only those in academics but of anyone who shares an interest in the soul of education.
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professor of economics and university president
Shapiro, Harold Tafler was born on June 8, 1935 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Maxwell and Mary (Tafler) Shapiro.
Bachelor of Commerce, McGill University, Montreal, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (Harold Helm fellow, Harold Dodds senior fellow), Princeton University, New Jersey, 1964.
From assistant professor to associate professor economic University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964—1970, professor, 1970—1976, professor economic public affairs, 1977, chairman department economic, 1974—1977, vice president academy affairs, 1977—1979, president, 1980—1987. Research advisory Bank Canada, 1965-1972. President Princeton University, 1988—2001, president emeritus, professor economics & public affairs Woodrow Wilson School, since 2001.
Member executive committee Association of America Universities, 1985—1989. Trustee New Jersey Commission Science and Technology, 1988—1991. Member President's Council Advisors Science and Technology, 1990—1992, Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey Joint Board Managers, since 2005.
Chairman committee employer-based health benefits Institute Medicine, 1991, National Academy of Sciences Committee Americas Energy Future, since 2007. Board overseers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, since 2000. Board director The Hastings Center, Reading is Fundamental, Knight Foundation Communications on Intercollegiate Athletics, Merck Vaccine Advisory Board, Princeton Healthcare Systems.
Board trustees University Medicine & Dentistry New Jersey, since 2006. Trustee technical Israel Institute of Technology, since 2002. Chairman Organization National Institutes of Health National Science, 2000—2003, member advisory committee Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, since 2006.
Chairman board DeVry Institute, since 2008.
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Chair National Bioethics Advisory Commission, 1996—2001. Chairman special Presidential committee Research Libraries Group, 1980—1989. Member Governor's High Technology Task Force, Michigan, 1980—1987, Governor's Commission Jobs and Economic Development, 1983—1987, Carnegie Commission College Retirement, 1984—1986.
Director American Council Education, 1989—1991. Member President Bush Council Advisors Science and Technology, 1990—1993. Trustee Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, since 1980, Interlochen Center Arts, 1988—1995, University Pennsylvania Medical Center, since 1992, University Corporation Advanced Internet Development, 2000, American Jewish Committee, since 2002, Educational Testing Service, 1994—2000.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Michigan Society Fellows (senior ). Member: American Philosophical Society, Institute Medicine of NAS/National Research Council, Universities Research Association (trustee 1988—2001).
Married Vivian Bernice Rapoport, May 19, 1957. Children: Anne, Marilyn, Janet, Karen.