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Franklin\u27s Idea of the English School Proposed and Defended
No full textMark Frazier Lloyd, Director of the University Archives and Records Center at the University of Pennsylvania, delivers a lecture on Benjamin Franklin\u27s original ideas for the institution that would become the University of Pennsylvania.
To download the lecture, select the mp3 file below.
Introduction, Michael Ryan, 00:00-04:01
Lecture, Mark Frazier Lloyd, 04:09-34:14
Questions and Answers, 34:30-37:23 In the lecture, Dr. Lloyd discusses the following texts, available online: Franklin, Observations Relative to the Intentions of the Original Founders of the Academy in Philadelphia, June 1789 Franklin, Idea of the English School. The event poster is also available for download, by selecting the download button, at upper right
Ghosts of Manila the fateful blood feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier
No full textThe author tells the story of the Ali-Frazier matchup in Manila. "When the 'Thrilla in Manila' was over, the hype no longer mattered: one man was left with a ruin of a life; the other was battered to his soul."--Jacket
100 Years: A Centennial History of the School of Social Policy & Practice
No full textThis book is dedicated to the generations of Penn Social Work faculty, staff, and students who advanced the field of Social Work and made Philadelphia, the nation, and the world a better place to live.
We are thankful to Susan Molofsky Todres, an Overseer of the School, who generously supported the production of this book. Her commitment to the School and the University is greatly appreciated.
And finally our gratitude to Ram A. Cnaan, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education at our School, for his patience and persistence in the planning, supervising and coordinating the details of this volume of institutional history
Fordham Feature in Penn Law Journal
No full text"Herewith the final installment in a brief history of the [University of Pennsylvania] Law School, celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding and the 100th anniversary of the construction of Silverman Hall.
Penn\u27s Great Expansion: Postwar Urban Renewal and the Alliance between Private Universities and the Public Sector
No full textWith the adoption of the 1948 plan, Penn embarked on the largest expansion in its history. The Great Expansion—a term we use to distinguish this extended period of prodigious institutional growth and improvement from Penn’s first expansion in West Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century—was the beneficiary of urban renewal politics and policies in the 1950s and 1960s. Philadelphia’s reformist, pro-growth Democratic leaders and city planners enthusiastically supported Penn’s expansion in West Philadelphia, hailing it as a bulwark against blight and an engine of economic and technological development at a time when Philadelphia’s manufacturing industries had begun a precipitous decline. Philadelphia, like New York and Chicago, looked to its universities to play key roles in the city’s urban renewal plans, and these universities— Penn, Drexel, and Temple—enlisted the city’s help to achieve their expansionist goals. By 1970, the redevelopment properties owned or controlled by Penn made up the lion’s share of land targeted by the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia (RDA) for urban renewal in an eighty-block area of West Philadelphia. Penn was by far the dominant urban renewal university in Philadelphia. In fact, it was the nation’s bellwether for this approach; no other higher education institution in the era of federally funded urban renewal (1949–74) made more use of urban renewal instruments or achieved a greater expansion in this period than Penn
Martin Meyerson’s Dream of “One University”
No full text As president of the University of Pennsylvania, Martin Meyerson (1922–2007) championed the idea of “One University,” a concept that projected an intellectually integrated and respectfully diverse research university. In September 1970, when Meyerson assumed the presidency, he found Penn at a critical juncture. “Franklin's University” roiled with serious financial and relational problems, some inherited from his predecessor, Gaylord Harnwell, many of them emanating from accelerating trends in the larger society, such as a downward spiraling economy, an escalating urban crisis and heightened racial tensions, and a youth culture that was increasingly self-referential in its lack of political concerns. The era of Penn's great expansion was over; yet while physical growth had been successfully accomplished, there was little integration of the departmental, disciplinary, and student activities housed in the new or renovated buildings, and the historic core of the campus remained without a landscape design. Meyerson's embrace of “One University” promised to remedy such academic fragmentation and factionalism, which in his judgment impeded Penn's advance into the pantheon of the world's leading research universities. This essay looks look closely at Meyerson's handling of these crises, his juggling of the various tensions involved, his administration's design for the beautification of Penn's campus, and in the final analysis, the enduring strengths and significant limitations of his program to achieve “One University”. </jats:p
Impending Change in Chinese Leadership Focus of Lawrence University International Lecture Series
No full textChinese scholar Mark Frazier examines China’s upcoming change in leadership and how politics is conducted in the world’s most populous country in the second installment of Lawrence University’s 2012 Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies.
Frazier, co-director of the India China Institute at The New School in New York City, presents “Who is Xi? Knowns and Unknowns in China’s Political Future,” Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Xi Jinping is expected to be named new party chief Nov. 8 at China’s 18th Party Congress. Much uncertainty, however, says Frazier, lies below the surface of this impending transition. He will discuss how the lack of information about Xi is symptomatic of larger problems on the horizon for how politics are conducted in China as well as for how China is perceived in the world.
Frazier spent six years as a member of the Lawrence government department before joining the University of Oklahoma in 2007 as the ConocoPhillips Professor of Chinese Politics and Associate Professor of International and Area Studies. Earlier this year, he was appointed to an endowed position in Chinese politics at The New School, where he also co-directs the India China Institute.
A scholar on the politics of labor and social policies in China, Frazier is the author of the books “Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China” and “The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace.”
The Povolny Lecture Series, named in honor of long-time Lawrence government professor Mojmir Povolny, who passed away in August, promotes interest and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions
Марк Слоним и его педагогическая деятельность в Колледже Сары Лоуренс в США (Mark Slonim at Sarah Lawrence College)
No full textВ статье представлена летопись жизни Марка Слонима, более 25 лет жизни которого были посвящены преподаванию в американском вузе, придерживающемся традиций прагматического образования. Показаны его путь к педагогической деятельности, склонность к которой он осознал, только начав преподавать в Колледже Сары Лоуренс после переезда в США, и проявление личностных качеств учителя в других видах деятельности задолго до того, как коммуникативные навыки и эмоциональный интеллект стали самостоятельными предметами исследования. Ряд фактов из биографии М.Слонима дают представление о некоторых традициях семейного воспитания в России начала ХХ в. В исследование включены архивные данные, представляющие источниковедческий интерес.
(The article presents the story of Marc Slonim’s more than twenty-five-year affiliation with an American institution of higher learning uniquely devoted to progressive education. The author outlines the teacherly qualities that Slonim demonstrated well before his move to the U.S. prompted his career in higher education, as well as his reliance on communicative skills and emotional intelligence long before these topics became a focus of academic research. The problem of being aware of one’s pedagogical inclination is stated using the example of Slonim – an educator by nature who became aware of it only when he started teaching. The facts of Slonim’s biography indicate family educational traditions in Russia in the early XX century, while the archival documents cited in the paper are of textual and source study interest.
<i>Becoming Penn: The pragmatic American university, 1950–2000</i>, by John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd
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