Background
Chace, William Murdough was born on September 3, 1938 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of William Emerson and Grace Elizabeth (Murdough) Chace.
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One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
( In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive ...)
In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University. Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from college, his boredom and confusion as a graduate student during the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, and his involvement in three contentious cases at Stanford: on tenure, curriculum, and academic freedom. When readers follow Chace on his trip to jail after he joins Stillman students in a civil rights protest, it is clear that the ideas he presents are born of experience, not preached from an ivory tower. The book brings the reader into both the classroom and the administrative office, portraying the unique importance of the former and the peculiar rituals, rewards, and difficulties of the latter. Although Chace sees much to lament about American higher education--spiraling costs, increased consumerism, overly aggressive institutional self-promotion and marketing, the corruption of intercollegiate sports, and the melancholy state of the humanities--he finds more to praise. He points in particular to its strength and vitality, suggesting that this can be sustained if higher education remains true to its purpose: providing a humane and necessary education, inside the classroom and out, for America's future generations.
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(One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way ) Author: William Murdough Chace Aug-2006
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Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics
(Lionel Trilling: Criticism And Politics, by Chace, Willia...)
Lionel Trilling: Criticism And Politics, by Chace, William M.
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William Murdough Chace
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Education
Bachelor in English, Haverford College, 1961; Master of Arts in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of California, 1968; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1990; Doctor of Laws (honorary), William College, 1992.
Career
Instructor, Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1963-1964;
teaching assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1964-1966;
acting instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1968;
assistant Professor of English, Stanford (California) U., 1968-1974;
associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1974-1980;
professor, Stanford (California) U., 1980;
associate dean School Humanities and Sciences, Stanford (California) U., 1981-1985;
vice provost for academic planning and development, Stanford (California) U., 1985-1988;
president, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1988-1994;
president, Emory University, Atlanta, since 1994. Director Sun Trust Banks. Consultant to Hewlett-Packard, Hallmark Cards Inc., Hawaiian Ednl.
Fund, Midwestern Management Association. Visiting professor The College Aboard the Delta Queen, 1979, 80, 82, The College in We. Europe and British Isles, 1985.
Lecturer to Library. Associations of Stanford University, 1976, 6th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 1977, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 1977, 78, Tufts U. Symposium, 1978, English Conference of University of California, Berkeley, 1979, Eighth International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 1982, International Business Machines Corporation International Business and Academy Conference, Monte Carlo, 1984, Ezra Pound Centennial Colloquium, San Jose State University, 1985, Annual Meeting of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, St. Louis, 1986, Chico State University, Louisiana State University, 1987, U. Utah School of Medicine Public Lecture series, 1987, Northern California Science Meeting of America College Physicians, Monterey, California, 1987, 13th International James Joyce Symposium, 1992. Presenter Joyce and History conference Yale University, 1990.
Achievements
Works
book
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One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
( In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive ...)
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Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics
(Lionel Trilling: Criticism And Politics, by Chace, Willia...)
- (One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way ) Author: William Murdough Chace Aug-2006
- Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics by William M. Chace (1980-04-01)
- Making it New
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One Hundred Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned along the Way
Interests
Connections
Married JoAn Elizabeth Johnstone, September 5, 1964. Children: William Johnstone, Katherine Elizabeth.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1961
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1963
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1968
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1990
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1992
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1963 - 1964
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1964 - 1966
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1985 - 1988
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1988 - 1994
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1994 - 2003