Leaders of liberal arts colleges universities,s of all of whom share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Im sorry . Louder. Ok. Do i need to start again . So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of morgannd the edmund s. Professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the dubbois epicf souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of colleges of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a scholar w
So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president of Wesleyan University in connecticut. He was
Share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Are you im sorry . Louder. Ok. Do i need to start again . Ok. Everyone has heard it so far. So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. And pulled i want to introduce him toward them, everyone up. Our panelists. Where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president
Baltimore. We have an excellent panel. We have, actually, appropriately enough, to leaders of liberal arts colleges and two leaders of large universities, all of whom share a lot of similar concerns and issues. Are you im sorry . Louder. Louder, okay, sorry. Do i need to start again . Okay, everyones heard us so far. So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones, and pull them toward them, everyone up here. I want to introduce our four panelists briefly. Carol quillen, to my immediate left, president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, spent much of her career at Rice University in houston. To her left is jonathan holloway, provost of northwestern university. And until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college and edmund s. Morgan professor of africanamerican studies, history and american studies at yale. Jonathan is working on many interesting projects, including hes written an introduction for a new edition of
Host welcome to the oah 2016 , and welcome to the plenary panel, worst president ever. I am claire potter, professor of history and director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the new school and i want to let those in the audience, who are tweeting know that the tag for oah badpres and you might want to add the tag oah2016. The theme of the conference, as chosen by john butler is on leadership. As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than about its excesses. This seems particularly timely juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. [laughter] did occur to me on the train