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Alan Guskin earned a B.A. in 1958 from Brooklyn
College (CUNY) and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University
of Michigan in 1968. As graduate students in 1960 he and Judith
Guskin formed a student organization that helped inspire John F. Kennedy
to found the Peace Corps.
From 1961 to 1964 the Guskins served in Thailand with the first group of
Peace Corps volunteers. He served as provost (1971-1973) and acting
president (1973-1974) at Clark University
and was Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
(1975-1985). Guskin completed the closure of less-viable campuses
begun under William Birenbaum and added one,
The McGregor School in 1993. In
1994 he established the current "federal" University structure of five
self-governing campuses unified under a Chancellor focused on building
partnerships between the disparate campuses. Guskin retired as University
President Emeritus in 1997, and is Distinguished University Professor
and at Antioch Seattle. |
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