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The Life Of Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Biography Of An Educator, Mallory Wallace

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Now in her eighties, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has lived a remarkable life. Justice Ginsburg has had an enormous impact on the way United States law respects gender equality, transformed the U.S. Constitution, and lead broad social transformation in America (Dodson, 2015). And while all of this is so, before she completed any of this, Justice Ginsburg was known as Professor Ginsburg, spending seventeen years teaching law at two highly respected institutions of higher education. During this time, she created and taught revolutionary courses on Women and the Law, co-write the first-ever published casebook on sex-based discrimination, …

Moisés Sáenz: Vigencia De Su Legado (English Translation), Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This book mainly offers the biography of Moisés Sáenz (1888-1941), founding architect of Mexico's system of public schooling and former student of John Dewey, describing in particular his roles in creating rural schools, initiating bilingual education (for Mexico's indigenous populations), and experimenting with linkages between schooling and community development. The volume also includes the author's reflection on the relevance of learning about Profr. Sáenz for his own intellectual trajectory (which includes studying the movement of students between Mexico and the US) and reflections by Mexican educators Humberto Leal Martinez and Juan Sánchez García.

Pictorial Life Review Of Roger Hiemstra, Dr. Roger Hiemstra

IACE Hall of Fame Repository

This is a life review of Professor Roger Hiemstra as shown through photos during his seven decades. Included within is a link to written biographical information.

Great Walls From Mao To Now: A Biographical Perspective On Adult Education Inside Chinese Communist Revolution, Roger Boshier, Xu Minghui

Adult Education Research Conference

From 1921 onwards, adult education was a vital corollary of Chinese Communist revolution. In 1954 Yao Zhongda lived near Mao in the Zhongnanhai and became Chief of the Bureau of Workers’ and Peasants Education. He is now 86 years old. The purpose of this study was to capture his biography and reflect on what it means for 21st century China. Data was secured during a 10-day Beijing interview session. Yao is an outstanding figure in Chinese adult education and today’s scholar-officials could learn a lot from him.

The Strider Years: An Extension Of The History Of Colby College, Ernest Cummings Marriner

Colby Books

Beloved Colby historian Ernest Cummings Marriner '13 documents Robert E. Lee Strider's nineteen years as president of Colby College. Marriner is also the author of the definitive History of Colby, which covers the period up to the Strider presidency.

General Catalogue Of Bowdoin College And The Medical School Of Maine: A Biographical Record Of Alumni And Officers, 1794-1950, Bowdoin College

Bowdoin Histories

General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine: A Biographical Record of Alumni and Officers, 1794-1950 (1950) provides a complete and comprehensive biographical record of all of Bowdoin’s students, faculty, and administrative officers from the founding of the College in 1794 through 1950.

Colby's President Roberts, Bertha Louise Soule

Colby Books

An account of the life of Arthur J. Roberts, president of Colby College during the years 1908-1927.

"He could be an outstanding president because with comprehending mind he knew what to notice and what to overlook, when to condemn and when to forgive, and kept always the commonsense, the fresh outlook of youth."

His Memorial Is Western State, Silas Bent

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Article by Silas Bent which appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal a little over a month after Henry Cherry's death. It gives an overview of his life and career at Western Kentucky University.

End Comes To Dr. Henry Hardin Cherry Sunday Afternoon At Home Here, The Bowling Green Times Journal

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Obituary of Henry Cherry published by the Bowling Green Times Journal. It is also an account of the first thirty years of Western Kentucky University.

A Prophet Among His Own People, A. L. Crabb

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

A biography of Henry Cherry written by Southern Normal School alum A.L. Crabb especially for the unveiling of the Cherry Statue. This reprint is from an unidentified issue of the Teachers College Heights.

Who's Who Biography Of Henry Cherry, Who's Who

2015: Cherry Statue Time Capsule

Who's Who biographical entry for Henry Cherry.