APPENDIX B Membership of the Boyer Commission Shirley Strum Kenny President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Shirley Strum Kenny has combined a teaching and research career with administrative leadership. Widely recognized for her initiatives to build bridges between the academic and business communities, she has been active in business and education collaboratives on workforce issues. Dr. Kenny has taught at the University of Texas, Gallaudet College, the Catholic University of America, the University of Delaware and the University of Maryland. At Maryland, she was Chair of the English Department and Provost of Arts and Humanities. She became President of Queens College CUNY in 1985 and of Stony Brook in 1994. She serves on a number of boards including Computer Associates International, Toys “R” Us, and the Chase Manhattan Metropolitan Advisory Board. She previously served as Chair of the Folger Shakespeare Library Institute Central Executive Committee, as Chair of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and as a board member of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Born in Texas, she holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas, a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago as well as several honorary degrees. Recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim awards, she has published five books and numerous articles on Restoration and eighteenth century British drama. Bruce Alberts A respected biochemist and molecular biologist, National Academy of Sciences President Bruce Alberts has dedicated much time to teacher improvement projects such as City Science in San Francisco. One of the principal authors of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a textbook used widely in American colleges and universities, Dr. Alberts has served on a number of prestigious advisory and educational boards including Chair of the National Research Council’s Commission on Life Sciences. Until his election as President of the Academy in 1993, he was President-elect of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A native of Chicago, Dr. Alberts is a graduate of Harvard, from which he received an undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences and his doctorate. In 1976, after 10 years on the Princeton faculty, he was appointed professor and vice-chair of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department of the University of California, San Francisco. In 1980, he was awarded an American Cancer Society Lifetime Research Professorship at UCSF and in 1985 named department chair. Known for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow chromosomes to replicate as living cells divide, he also co-authored Essential Cell Biology (1998), a text designed to explain the subject to a more general audience. Wayne C. Booth Veteran educator and author Wayne C. Booth spent 30 years teaching at the University of Chicago where he held the George M. Pullman Chair and is currently a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the English Department. His works include The Rhetoric of English, Now Don’t Try to Reason With Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age, The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, The Art of Growing Older, and The Craft of Research. Born and raised in Utah, Dr. Booth holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Chicago. He is a past President of the Modern Language Association of America and has served on numerous executive committees and commissions ranging from the National Council of Teachers of English to the Commission on Literature of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education. He is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and has also been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities and Phi Beta Kappa. Milton Glaser One of the world’s best-known designers, Milton Glaser has been an active member of both the design and education communities since the start of his career. His work encompasses a wide range of design disciplines including print graphics, environmental and interior design, and posters for the arts as well as commercial projects and services. His graphic and architectural commissions include the I§NY logo for New York State, an international AIDS symbol for the World Health Organization, the logo for Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Angels in America," and redesigns of an international collection of publications including L’Espresso (Rome), Alma (Paris), The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The Nation. He is co-founder of New York Magazine for which he served as art director until 1977. Born in New York City, Glaser was educated at the Cooper Union Art School, New York, and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy. The recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, he teaches and is on the board of the School of Visual Arts, New York City, and is a member of the board of Cooper Union. He is a past President of the International Design Conference and served as Vice-President and national convention co-chair of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; and the National Archive, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Charles E. Glassick Senior Associate of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Charles E. Glassick has long played a pivotal role in the shape and substance of higher education. As President of Gettysburg College from 1977 to 1989, he was named one of the 100 "most effective college presidents" in the country. Dr. Glassick, who did his undergraduate work at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Princeton, served as Interim President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A past Vice-Chairman of The Carnegie Foundation board, he also was a senior fellow, assisting the late Ernest L. Boyer in preparing major Carnegie reports including Campus Life: In Search of Community and Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. He is co-author of Scholarship Assessed. Dr. Glassick was President of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia, from 1991 to 1995 and is the recipient of many honorary degrees and awards. Stanley 0. Ikenberry Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and President of the American Council on Education, Stanley 0. Ikenberry has been involved in higher education at the national level throughout most of his career. Former President of the University of Illinois, he also led the boards of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the Association of American Universities. Prior to assuming the Presidency of the University of Illinois, Dr. Ikenberry was Senior Vice President of Pennsylvania State University and was a professor in Pennsylvania State Center for the Study of Higher Education. Born in Colorado, he received his undergraduate degree from Shepard College, West Virginia, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. He holds eight honorary degrees and has served on numerous commissions, boards and councils including the Presidents Work Group on Accreditation of Higher Education in America, which he chaired. He is on the board of Pfizer Inc., New York; UtiliCorp United, Kansas City; and the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Dr. Ikenberry is also the author of numerous studies, articles and reports including A Higher Education Map for the 1990’s. Kathleen Hall Jamieson Communicator and educator Kathleen Hall Jamieson is familiar to television audiences as the result of her frequent appearances on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and as a commentator for CBS News during national elections. Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, she is also a prolific author whose books and articles are widely respected by media watchers and the general public. Her most recent book, written with Joseph Cappella, is Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Chronicle of Higher Education. A graduate of Marquette University, from which she received a bachelor’s degree, she holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She was appointed Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication in 1989 after a teaching career that took her to the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, where she served as a Professor of Communications and Chair of the Speech Communication Department. The recipient of more than two dozen grants and fellowships, she has studied the way the public learns about public policy through a Robert Wood Johnson grant; has explored media, participation, finance and democracy with the aid of a MacArthur Foundation grant; and looked at East-West Rhetoric as the result of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She was also the recipient of Ford, Fulbright and Knapp fellowships, an Eli Lilly Foundation grant and a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Robert M. O’Neil Founding Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, Robert M. O’Neil has been able to fold his vast knowledge of law into the administrative workings of academia. He served as President of the University of Virginia for five years and continues on its law faculty, teaching courses in constitutional and copyright law. After serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., Dr. O’Neil began his teaching career in 1963 at the University of California Law School at Berkeley. His administrative career was born at the University of Cincinnati where he served as Provost in the early 1970’s. He was Vice President of Indiana University at Bloomington and later President of the statewide University of Wisconsin before coming to Virginia. He taught law at each institution. A native of Boston, Dr. O’Neil holds three degrees from Harvard and honorary degrees from Beloit College and Indiana University. He is the author of several books including Classrooms in the Crossfire and was General Counsel to the American Association of University Professors from 1970 to 1972 and again from 1990 to 1992. Carolynn Reid-Wallace Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, Carolynn Reid-Wallace has served as Senior Vice President, Education and Programming, for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting since 1993. In that role, she carries out the Corporation’s commitment to provide and enhance educational services through public telecommunications and evolving technologies. From 1991 to 1993, she directed a staff of 1,250 federal employees and 10 regional offices concerned with the U.S. Department of Education’s role in post-secondary education. It was an area close to her heart. As Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the City University of New York from 1987 to 1991, Dr. Reid-Wallace was chief academic officer of the nation’s third largest urban university system. Her university-wide review and redesign of teacher education programs was recognized as a national model by The New York Times. Prior to directing a national program to increase the effectiveness of humanities education in America’s schools for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Reid-Wallace held several positions at Bowie State College, Maryland, including the Acting Presidency, and taught at Grinnell College, The George Washington University, Howard University, Washington, and Talladega College. The recipient of a Ph.D. degree in English and American Literature from The George Washington University, she has been a Rockefeller scholar, a Ford fellow, a John Hay Whitney alternate, and a Fulbright lecturer. Chang-Lin Tien The first Asian-American to head a major research university in the United States, Chang-Lin Tien became seventh Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. Internationally recognized for his research in the field of heat transfer technology, he is the recipient of many honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Max Jakob Memorial Award, the highest honor in the field of heat transfer. Anchored in both American and Asian cultures, Dr. Tien is deeply committed to maintaining excellence and to broadening the democratic reach of higher education to all groups. Born in China and educated in Shanghai and Taiwan, he came to the United States in 1956 and earned a master’s degree at the University of Louisville in 1957. He then earned a second master’s and a Ph.D. degree at Princeton in l959, the same year he joined the Berkeley faculty. A recipient of honorary degrees from several universities, he currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Princeton, the Asia Foundation, and Wells Fargo Bank. He has published more than 280 journal articles, has been editor of three international journals, and has guided more than 60 students to the doctorate. Chen Ning Yang Nobel Prize winning physicist, Chen Ning Yang directs the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also holds the title of Albert Einstein Professor of Physics. Born in China, he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1948 and joined Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study in 1949, where he served as a professor from 1955 until 1966, the year he came to Stony Brook. Dr. Yang is a member of the U.S. Academy of Sciences; the Academia Sinica, Taiwan; and the American Philosophical Society. He also belongs to the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, London; and several other academies. In addition to the Nobel Prize, which he won in 1957, Dr. Yang is the recipient of the Rumford Premium, the National Medal of Science, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Bower Prize, and the N. Bogoliubov Prize, which he received in 1996. He holds more than a dozen honorary degrees including an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Princeton.