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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.
William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, [5] founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in ...
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.
William Bowen (author) (1877–1937), children's author and Newbery Honor recipient; William Bowen (British Army officer) (1898–1961), British Army general; William G. Bowen (1933–2016), former president of Princeton University; Billy Bowen (1897–1960), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wales (RU), Swansea, and ...
Her predecessors have included Earl Lewis, Don Randel, William G. Bowen, John Edward Sawyer and Nathan Pusey. In 2004, the foundation was awarded the National Medal of Arts . [ 3 ]
In 1935, the university once again formed appreciable plans for the start of a law school but was unable to secure a faculty. In 1974, then president of Princeton, William G. Bowen, selected a committee to investigate and advise on the achievability of a law school. The committee recommended plans for a law school be deferred after citing high ...
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