biography
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Hutchins, Robert Maynard
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| (1899–1977)
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| biography:
| University president, born in New York City, New York, USA. He earned a BA and LLB from Yale. He made a name as one of the country's foremost, and youthful, educational innovators. He rejuvenated Yale Law School as dean (1927–9), and at the University of Chicago (president 1929–45, chancellor 1945–51) he introduced the ‘Chicago Plan’, which included the Great Books programme, the admission of high-school students before graduation, and the abolition of course credits and compulsory attendance. His concentration on bolstering Chicago's undergraduate education was profoundly controversial at the primarily graduate institution. He was long associated with the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic and Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1954–74), and his many books include The Higher Learning in America (1936) and The University of Utopia (1953). |
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