Baby-Boomer College Presidents Embrace Student Life
College presidents are going beyond the nine-to-five office hours. At my alma matter, Friends University, our president was constantly getting involved with the student body. Whether it was playing Frisbee with the students that lived in the dorms or grilling burgers for the football team, Biff Green was, and continues, reaching out to his students.
The baby-boomer presidents, which were raised during the anti-establishment of the ’60s, want to be more than a poised picture hanging on the wall. They’ve become unlike their straitlaced Dean Wormer predecessors. And they seem to be more comfortable hanging out with freshmen than attending donor luncheons. Read the rest of this entry »
posted on July 19th, 2010
by Jessie, Staff Writer
Tags: baby boomers, college life, george washington university, Miami University in Ohio, Shenandoah University, Tufts University, University of Richmond
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