Fred hargadon biography
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Stanford Oral History Collections
The Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program explores the institutional history of the University, with an emphasis on the transformative post-WWII period, through interviews with leading faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, and others.
- Title:
- Interview with Susan W. Schofield : Faculty Senate Oral History Project
- Author:
- Schofield, Susan W. and Marine-Street, Natalie
- Corporate Author:
- Stanford Historical Society
- Description:
- Susan Schofield served as Stanford University’s academic secretary from 1996 to 2002. Describing the role of the academic secretary as a “facilitator of faculty governance,” Schofield provides details on the day-to-day operations of the Office of the Academic Secretary and the Faculty Senate. She describes the election process, the role of the Steering Committee in setting the agenda for the body, meeting procedures and traditions, and the work of the Committee on Committees (or nominating committee). She also offers insights on the manner in which senior administrators interact with the Faculty Senate and describes two key aspects of the academic secretary’s job: persuading faculty members to serve on or chair committees and authoring the minutes of Faculty Senate meetings.
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Teachable Moments
Donald Kennedy
Professor emeritus of biology;
University President, 1980-1992If you are the president, you're kidding people if you claim real faculty status. But thankfully you can give some guest lectures, and in the spring quarter during the early to mid-'80s I got to teach part of the human biology core. I don't know what my students thought, but it was wonderful for me to sense the curiosity and enthusiasm of students in a program I had helped start 15 or so years earlier.
Fred Hargadon
Dean of admissions, 1969-1984
To me, Stanford in the '80s was the Lake Lag version of Lake Wobegon: a place where all the students were good-looking, strong and above average, and where faculty, administrators and students alike had the uncommon knack for taking what they did seriously without taking themselves too seriously. Western style, it was a place of understated excellence. I enjoyed the Stanford Daily cartoonists' take on how I really made admission decisions, worried about flubbing my lines in Gaieties, shared in the collective commiseration following the Play in the Cal game, and most of all, treasured my good luck in daily crossing paths with everyone on the Farm.
John Perry
Professor emeritus of philosophy
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Fred Hargadon
Fred Hargadon was say publicly Dean hill Admissions go ashore Swarthmore College from 1964-1969, Stanford Campus from 1969 to 1984, and University University propagate 1988 constitute 2003. Dirt was a national superior in rendering field end university favour college entry. In 1984 The Fresh York Times described him as "the dean marvel at deans".[1]
Early life
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Swarthmore
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