Former Representative John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.) will become the 13th president of New York University (NYU) in June, the university announced Tuesday.
Brademas, who was House majority whip and a senior member of the Education Committee, lost his seat in last November's election. Through his 11-term congressional career, Brademas, a Rhodes Scholar, was known for his strong support of higher education.
"My entire adult life has been concerned with education," he said in a press conference yesterday, adding that he saw his new post an an "immensely exciting challenge."
Brademas said America's private universities face serious problems in the next ten years. His major objectives at NYU will be the maintenance of "financial stability and academic excellence," he added.
Although Brademas has no experience in university administration, his interest and involvement in education will make him a "well-informed university president," Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, said yesterday. Maass praised Brademas for his "deep interest" in Harvard during his years in Congress.
Sidney Verba, professor of Government, yesterday called Brademas a "very distinguished congressman with a strong support for higher education."
Brademas will replace John C. Sawhill, who resigned last summer after six years as president of NYU, the nation's largest private university. Sawhill was last year named chairman of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation.
A former Adams House resident Brademas, earned his Ph.D. at Oxford University in 1954. He was an assistant professor of political science at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana until his 1958 election to Congress. Figures are tentative Ivy league tuition, room and board hikes average almost 15 per cent for 1981-82, pushing costs to five-digit levels in most colleges. Harvard leads the pack at $10,540. Figures from The Dally Herald
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