William Craig Rice (1955 - June 20, 2016) is an American educator. He is the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Education Program Division.
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Careers
Rice was born in 1955 in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Virginia, where his studies focused on English and American literature. He later earned a M.F.A. and a doctor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he won the Hopwood Writing Award and Brubacher Prize in Educational History. His publications include: Public Discourse & amp; Academic Inquiry , a study in the sociology of knowledge; Characteristics of Exemplary Schools ; a special edited volume of the Harvard Review commemorating the Nobel Prize of Seamus Heaney; and over fifty articles, reviews, essays, stories and poems in magazines such as New Criteria , Policy Review , The Sewanee Review , < i> The Washington Post , and The Common Review: The Magazine of the Great Books Foundation . He also works as a mechanic Alfa Romeo, a warden at Adirondack Mountain Reserve, and manager of an antique shop.
After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertake postgraduate studies at the University of Michigan. From 1992 to 2001, he taught expository writing at the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University, where he also edited non-fiction for Harvard Review. While at Harvard he was involved in educational reform as a consultant to the Massachusetts Board of Education, helping to reshape the curriculum and assessment framework in the Art of English. He has been a Visiting Fellow at John Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and at the American Enterprise Institute; Ella Baker Fellow at Antioch New England Graduate School; a consultant to the John Templeton Foundation; and from 2001-2004 became a staff member at the American Academy for Liberal Education, where he created a new K-12 program. In addition, he has been a consultant to the American Council for Certification of Excellence Master, which offers alternative routes into K-12 classes for graduates of liberal arts colleges and professionals who are turning to careers, as well as for educational reform organizations, who have launched the American Diploma Project to increase academic expectations in American high schools.
In 2004 he was appointed President of Shimer College, where he also served as Professor of English, Education, and Humanity. Amid the controversy, the Shimer College Board announced in January 2006 that at its urging had accepted an invitation to move schools to the Illinois Institute of Technology campus on the south side of Chicago. The move was completed in August of the same year. In August 2007, he left Shimer to accept the position with NEH. She also serves as a Ralston College Visitor. He died on June 20, 2016.
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Family
His father's grandfather was John Andrew Rice, founder of Black Mountain College. He collaborated with Mark Bauerlein in editing replica of the suppressed autobiography of John Andrew Rice, 1942, in the Southern Classics Series of the University of South Carolina Press (2014).
References
External links
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Education Program Division
- Transcript of PBS Discussion on National Endowment for the Arts
- Shimer College
- How to Transfer College - Chicago Public Radio - an interview with William Craig Rice about the transfer of Shimer College
- Who Kills History? Academic Autopsy - an article by William Craig Rice
- I Hear America Singing - an article by William Craig Rice
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