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Fred Harvey Harrington (June 24, 1912 – April 8, 1995) was an American
educator A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...
and the 17th President of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1962 to 1970.


Career

Born in Watertown, Harrington received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University (1933), and his Master of Arts (1934) and Doctor of Philosophy (1937), both from New York University, where he also taught as an instructor during the 1936-1937 academic year. Upon graduating, he immediately took the post of Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1940, Harrington moved to the University of Arkansas as a full professor of history and political science, and had a brief spell as a visiting professor at West Virginia University in 1942. He earned a
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
from 1943 to 1944. Harrington returned to Madison in 1947, and also chaired the history department from 1952 to 1955. Harrington held administrative posts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant to the President (1957), Vice President of Academic Affairs (1958), and then as VP of the university (1962). From 1962 until 1970, he served as President. He then served as a Ford Foundation advisor in India from 1971 to 1977, and then returned to the university to continue teaching. Harrington retired in 1982 and later died of a
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in Madison in 1995. In 2015, an endowed professorship was named after Harrington called the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alfred W. McCoy Alfred "Al" William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is an American historian and educator. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.undergraduate thesis in history is known as the Fred Harvey Harrington Prize.


Awards

*1986 - Association Indians in America Honor Award


See also

* List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1943 * List of presidents and chancellors of the University of Wisconsin–Madison


References


External links


UWM profile
1912 births 1995 deaths People from Watertown, New York Cornell University alumni New York University alumni New York University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty University of Arkansas faculty West Virginia University faculty Leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison American expatriates in India 20th-century American academics {{US-edu-bio-stub