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+ | ======Scott, | ||
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+ | Under Scott, the campus made many important advances, including the successful completion of the first comprehensive capital campaign, attention to neglected infrastructure, | ||
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+ | Scott championed the vision of an integrative University in which transdisciplinary research and holistic learning communities would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge and support the development of wiser human beings to create a better world. His seminal planning documents, Strategic Thinking and Strategic Action, developed core principles for fostering a more collaborative, | ||
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+ | David K. Scott was born on the northernmost of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The setting exposed him at an early age to the forces of nature which led to his interest in physics and also required him to leave home at age eleven to attend boarding school, a harsh necessity in those days if a university career was desired. The commitment of his family and his community to his own education has been a shaping force in Scott' | ||
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+ | Before coming to Amherst, Scott served as Provost at Michigan State University. His administrative career was preceded by a distinguished research career in nuclear physics, highlighted by work at leading cyclotron laboratories. | ||
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+ | ==== Credits: ==== | ||
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+ | * Cary, H. (1962). //The University of Massachusetts: | ||
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