Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley; Hon. Doctorates from Ohio State University, University of Maryland, Blackburn College, and Illinois State University.
Professor of Education, Ohio State University; President and Chancellor of Syracuse University; President of the University of Illinois; President and Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago.
Author of School Finance (1962); Co-editor of Leadership and Organizational Culture (1984).