Louis T. Benezet

Louis Tomlinson Benezet ( born June 29, 1915 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, † January 23, 2002 in Mill Valley, California ) was an American educator, educational policy makers and multiple U.S. university president.

Life

Louis Tomlinson Benezet was the son of Louis P. Benezet, a professor at Dartmouth College. He and received his B. A. at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, his M. A. Reed College ( for " psychology " ), Portland, Oregon and his Ph.D. ( " College and Educational Administration ") at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York) ( 1929).

From 1948 to 1955 he was president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, and from 1955 to 1963 president of Colorado College. He made the Colorado College to a nationally recognized training center. When he left in 1955, the Colorado College, he was in this state of a recognized national figure in the " Higher Education ". According to him, the award there annually Benezet Award ( " Benezet Award" ) was named.

He was 1963-1970 president of Claremont Graduate University and the University Center in Claremont, California. As president of Claremont Graduate University, he left the national U.S. education a lasting impression, as he prepares for a change in the " college rating system " began, which is intended to reflect the actual following in later life achievements of its students better. He formulated that a university is only as good as it is capable of producing the vast majority of students a sustained educational improvement.

From 1970 to 1976 he was president of the State University of New York, Albany.

Sources (selection)

  • General Education in the Progressive College. N. Y. Teachers College Columbia University in 1943
  • What is our deadline? An Educational Crusade to find the Means of Survival. Journal of higher Education 20, 303-308 (1949 )
  • General Education in the Progressive College, New York, Arno Press, 1971
  • People versus pyramids: New goals for the elite college (The Colorado College Studies) 1999, ISBN 0935052348
  • Man
  • Americans
  • Teacher ( 20th century)
  • Born in 1915
  • Died in 2002
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