Lyman Glenny, 83; UC Berkeley Authority on Higher Education
Lyman Glenny, 83, who built UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Higher Education into the nation’s leading authority on what colleges and universities should be doing, died of bone cancer Sept. 6 in Walnut Creek, Calif.
In an era of expansive growth to provide higher education for baby boomers, Glenny wrote influential studies on such problems as planning, budgeting, management, programming, student financial aid and educational quality.
Born in Trent, S.D., Glenny served with the Army Signal Corps in France during World War II and in the Pentagon during the Korean War. He earned successive degrees in political science from the universities of Minnesota and Colorado and Iowa State University.
Glenny taught briefly in Iowa after earning his doctorate, then 12 years at Cal State Sacramento, and from 1968 to 1983 at UC Berkeley. In 1960, he headed the Nebraska Study of Administration of Higher Education, and from 1962 to 1968 directed the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
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