March 1998
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Robert Wood Honored with Endowed Professorship The Robert C. Wood Visiting Professorship in Public Affairs is being established at UMass Boston through the McCormack Institute to honor Bob Wood.
Wood served as president of the University of Massachusetts from 1970-1977 and also as professor of political science and senior fellow at the McCormack Institute.
The endowed professorship will bring distinguished and thoughtful public figures to the campus to lecture, lead seminars, and engage students and faculty in discussions of public policy and political life.
In effect, the professorship will seek to link the scholarly pursuits of the academy with the practical problems and policies of the larger society, a mission Bob Wood has pursued throughout his career.
As scholar, author, college teacher, urban school superintendent, U.S. cabinet officer and University president, Wood invested himself in the call for reflective practice and relevant scholarship in a democratic society.
Friends, colleagues and admirers of Bob and Peggy Wood, as well as those who care about the urban mission of UMass Boston, are joining to make this endowment a reality.
On March 3, McCormack Institute will host the Robert C. Wood Seminar in honor of Wood and the establishment of the endowed professorship. Free and open to the public, the seminar will feature Peter Edelman, for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration, and Alan Altshuler, director of the Taubman Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School.