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William Gordon Bowen (/ ˈ b oʊ ə n / BOH-ən; October 6, 1933 – October 20, 2016) [1] was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. [2] From 1972 until 1988, he was the president of Princeton University. Bowen founded the digital library, JSTOR.
JSTOR was founded in 1995 under the direction of current ITHAKA president Kevin M. Guthrie. Guthrie also served as the founding president of ITHAKA in 2004. [1] Both organizations were initially funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which at the time was led by William G. Bowen. [6]
JSTOR (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ s t ɔːr / JAY-stor; short for Journal Storage) [2] is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. [3]
16th President of Princeton University; In office 1957–1972: Preceded by: Harold W. Dodds: Succeeded by: William G. Bowen: United States Ambassador to India; In office May 26, 1977 – December 10, 1980
William G. Most, a Catholic author, sees in the gebirah a type of Mary. [1] References ... JSTOR 3267147. Bowen, Nancy (2001). "The Quest for the Historical Gĕbîrâ".
Drawing upon the database, he collaborated with William G. Bowen and Derek Bok on The Shape of the River: Long-term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998). [4] He also wrote (with William Bowen) The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (Princeton University Press ...
He was the recipient of the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book, The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions, co-authored with the former President of Princeton University, William G. Bowen. [6]
In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth.