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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Raised at Rutgers: A President’s Story captures in a single volume the experiences of a lifetime. An engaging and intelligent story of one person’s journey through the halls of the academy, it is profoundly personal, yet it resonates with lessons for all of us who have accepted the wonderful vocation of higher education."
-- John Sexton * President, New York University *
"Dick McCormick has written an uncommonly candid memoir of his career at Rutgers—beginning as a faculty child and ascending to the presidency. He left Rutgers a better place and that legacy will endure." -- Mary Sue Coleman * President Emeritus, University of Michigan *
"Through the unique lens of a president who literally grew up with his beloved university,
Raised at Rutgers combines a historian’s keen observations of events and context with a big-picture understanding of, and passion for, the mission of public higher education. Educational leaders and policy-makers can learn a great deal from this remarkably candid, insightful, and unflinching portrait of challenges and decisions that helped shape one of America’s great universities." -- Jonathan R. Alger * President, James Madison University *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
1 Six Scenes from a University Presidency
2 Coming of Age at Rutgers
3 A Difficult First Year as Rutgers President
4 The Academic Heart of the Matter
5 Intercollegiate Athletics
6 Rutgers and New Jersey
7 Getting a Medical School, Concluding a Presidency
8 Reflections on Leading Rutgers
