Higher education administrator and innovator. Dr. Frank C. Abbott was the first Executive Director, Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) serving from 1965 to 1977. Staff member, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), from 1984 to 1992. BA (1942), MPA (1949), Cornell University; PhD, Harvard University (1956); Thesis: Public Policy-Making in Higher Education: A Study of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Publications included: Frank Curtis Abbott Reports, 1946-1948 [includes seven reports concerning the organization and administration of Cornell University wriiten by Abbott while he was employed as an administrative assistant first to Provost Arthur S. Adams and later to President Edmund Ezra Day]; The Cambridge City Manager (1951); Student Life in the United States: Report of the Conference Held at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, June 12-16,1953 (editor, 1958); Faculty-Administration Relationships: Report of a Work Conference, May 7-9, 1957 (editor, 1958); Government Policy and Higher Education: A Study of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, 178-1949 (1958); The Auraria Highter Education Center,: How it Came to Be (1999); and, A History of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education: The First Forty Years (2004). Husband of Lois Ann Bergen Abbott. LT, U.S. Navy, World War II (USS Benham, 1943-1945; USS Telfair, 1945-1946). A true gentleman, scholar, mentor, administrator and an outstanding public servant.
Higher education administrator and innovator. Dr. Frank C. Abbott was the first Executive Director, Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) serving from 1965 to 1977. Staff member, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), from 1984 to 1992. BA (1942), MPA (1949), Cornell University; PhD, Harvard University (1956); Thesis: Public Policy-Making in Higher Education: A Study of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Publications included: Frank Curtis Abbott Reports, 1946-1948 [includes seven reports concerning the organization and administration of Cornell University wriiten by Abbott while he was employed as an administrative assistant first to Provost Arthur S. Adams and later to President Edmund Ezra Day]; The Cambridge City Manager (1951); Student Life in the United States: Report of the Conference Held at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, June 12-16,1953 (editor, 1958); Faculty-Administration Relationships: Report of a Work Conference, May 7-9, 1957 (editor, 1958); Government Policy and Higher Education: A Study of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, 178-1949 (1958); The Auraria Highter Education Center,: How it Came to Be (1999); and, A History of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education: The First Forty Years (2004). Husband of Lois Ann Bergen Abbott. LT, U.S. Navy, World War II (USS Benham, 1943-1945; USS Telfair, 1945-1946). A true gentleman, scholar, mentor, administrator and an outstanding public servant.
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