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Bill Jason Priest, community college pioneer / Kathleen Krebbs Whitson ; foreword by Edmund J. Gleazer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitson, Kathleen Krebbs, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community college administrators--Texas--Dallas County--Biography.
- Community college administrators.
- Dallas County Community College District.
- Priest, Bill Jason, 1917-.
- Priest, Bill Jason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 165 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bill Jason Priest is credited with developing and defining the Dallas County Community College District.Drawing from archives and numerous interviews with Priest and his personal and professional associates, this text presents the life of this notable figure in Texas education.
- Contents:
- Early influences
- The war years
- The wave swells
- The Dallas story : establishing the district and hiring the president
- Building a national model : the flagship
- Building a national model : then there were seven
- Bill Jason Priest, the man personally and professionally
- Retirement : the end of an era
- Legacies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-418-6
- 1-4337-1005-6
- 1-4175-9357-1
- OCLC:
- 228121211
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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