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William G. Bowen (born October 6, 1933) is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006. He was the president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988.
William Bowen graduated from Denison University in 1955, and Princeton University in 1958, where he earned a PhD. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1958, specializing in labor economics.
In 1988, he left Princeton and joined The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he created a research program to investigate doctoral education, collegiate admissions, independent research libraries, and charitable nonprofits in order to ensure that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's grants would be well-informed and more effective.
William Bowen has also been partially responsible for JSTOR, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, ARTstor, and Ithaka Harbors, Inc..
Bowen has authored 19 books, including the Grawemeyer Award-winning The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (co-authored with Derek Bok). One of his most recent books, Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (2005), was coauthored with Eugene M. Tobin and Martin A. Kurzweil. Bowen's current research project is a study of graduation rates at public universities in the United States. This research culminated in the book Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities[1] that was coauthored with Matthew M. Chingos and Michael S. McPherson.
Richard H. Brodhead appointed him and Julius L. Chambers to evaluate the performance of Duke University's administration in handling the 2006 lacrosse team case.
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 An Interview with William G. Bowen Part 1 Co-author of Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities. |  William G. Bowen: Reflections of a University President President Emeritus William G. Bowen reflects on his role in Princeton's history concerning coeducation, diversity, life sciences and more. http://www.princet... |  An Interview with William G. Bowen Part 2 Co-author of Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities. |  William G. Bowen: "More to Hope Than to Fear: The Future of the Liberal Arts College" William G. Bowen, president emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University, gave a lecture on "More to Hope Than to Fear: The Future of t... |  Education Book Review: The Shape of the River by William G. Bowen, Derek Bok, Glenn C. Loury http://www.EducationBookMix.com This is the summary of The Shape of the River by William G. Bowen, Derek Bok, Glenn C. Loury. |  Re: Collegiate Sports A quick review of the book "The Game of Life" by James L. Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press). Do collegiate sports conflict with colle... |  William G. |  Princeton: A Search For Answers, 1973 (Color Corrected Version) From the Princeton University Archives: Recruiting film, produced and directed by Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr. Faculty featured include, among other... |  Princeton: A Search for Answers, 1973 From the Princeton University Archives: Recruiting film, produced and directed by Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr. Faculty featured include, among other... |  G crossing finish line Giovanni finishes 3rd in the 1/2 mile race!!! |
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Times Higher Education
Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:21:02 -0700
Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen. 6 June 2013. Miriam E. David considers a commentary on the preservation of pedagogy in the face of technological advances. This eloquent little book, by the former president of Princeton ...
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CBS News
Fri, 24 May 2013 04:23:57 -0700
Enter William G. Bowen, one of the most respected figures in the higher-education, who has tackled the question in his new book, Higher Education in the Digital Age. Just a few years ago, Bowen, an economist and a former president of Princeton ...
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Harvard Magazine
Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:51:02 -0700
Former Princeton president William G. Bowen, who has written extensively about online education (and addressed the subject at a Harvard-MIT conference in early March), told The New York Times, “We have encouraged Coursera to work with the large state ...
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lareviewofbooks
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:12:24 -0700
As it turns out, I also am in the process of writing a review for the Continuing Higher Education Review of William G. Bowen's Higher Education in the Digital Age, based on the 2012 Tanner Lectures. Contemplating the range of perspectives in Bowen's ...
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Pacific Standard
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:22:16 -0700
In 1981, William G. Bowen, then president of Princeton University, noted with obvious concern that only 37 percent of those who had earned a Ph.D. in foreign languages in the 1978-1979 academic year had found tenure-track jobs by the start of 1980.
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New York Times
Wed, 29 May 2013 21:12:50 -0700
William G. Bowen, the former Princeton president and founding chairman of Ithaka, a nonprofit organization that studies online education, sees promise in the arrangement. “We have encouraged Coursera to work with the large state university systems, and ...
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Inside Higher Ed
Tue, 21 May 2013 00:15:30 -0700
Many of the studies on athletics have tended to focus on big-time college sports programs. But look again: William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton, transformed the Mellon Foundation research resources into influential, data driven works that ...
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