A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2019
Book
Hardback
394 pages
978-1-60938-651-1 (ISBN)
Description
University of Iowa legend Willard L. ""Sandy"" Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. This memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over more than six decades of leadership, encapsulates his optimistic view of the public university as an institution.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
22 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-651-1 (9781609386511)
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Boyd Willard L. Boyd
Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier
E-Book
05/2019
University Of Iowa Press
€42.99
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Person
Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd first came to the University of Iowa as a law professor, and eventually became the university's fifteenth president from 1969 to 1981, when he left to become president of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He returned to UI as a law professor in 1996 and served as interim president from 2002 to 2003. He is also founder of the university's Nonprofit Resource Center. Sandy lives in Iowa City.