Syracuse University: Volume V: The Eggers Years

Drawing on more than one hundred personal interviews-including Chancellors Corbally and Eggers, and the current chancellor, Kenneth A. Shaw-historian John Robert Greene has crafted a highly readable work on the history of Syracuse University. This volume, the fifth in the series, focuses on the administrations of John Corbally (1969-71) and Melvin A. Eggers (1971-91). Corbally came into office during a sweeping national student revolt and the black power and civil rights movements. He faced...