On 2/20/2012 12:11 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Why would a leftist scholar want to be Provost of any university? > Provosts do a lot of dirty work. >
NY Times, January 18, 1998 Educator Joseph Murphy, 64, Former Chancellor of CUNY By DAVID ROHDE Joseph S. Murphy, the son of a labor organizer and a champion of the working class who rose to become Chancellor of the City University of New York, died in an automobile accident near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday. He was 64. It was not clear last night what Mr. Murphy, who had a long history of humanitarian and educational work in the East African country, was doing in Ethiopia. Known for his genial manner and visceral sympathy for the plight of students, Mr. Murphy was able to rebuild and even extend academic programs during his tenure as CUNY Chancellor from 1982 to 1990, despite the system's financial woes. Mr. Murphy, who learned to speak Yiddish from his mother, a Polish Jew, and Gaelic from his father, an Irish longshoreman, was a political scientist and author of two books. He was known for his ability to combine a practical knowledge of politics with an enduring commitment to the poor and the working class. Highlights of his tenure as Chancellor included the introduction of child care services for working students and the expansion of adult literacy and collaborative programs with the public schools. He also started a summer remedial course that taught basic skills to incoming freshmen, and a $1.5 billion capital construction program to modernize 13 of the university's 20 campuses. [The obit does not mention that he was also responsible for making the BMCC campus a home for the Socialist Scholars Conference for a number of years.] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
