Edward Harold Litchfield (April 14, 1914 – March 8, 1968) was an American educator and the twelfth

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(1956–1965) of the

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. He is best known for a major expansion of the university, but also a failure to raise sufficient capital to fund such growth, eventually leading to his resignation in July 1965. He earned the

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, M.A., and Ph.D. at the

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. He taught political science at

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for a year, then from 1942 to 1945 taught public administration at the University of Michigan and also was Deputy Director of the Michigan State Civil Service Commission. In 1945 he served as director, civilian affairs in the U.S. Military Government in

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, where he participated in the reconstruction of the occupied country. In 1953 he was appointed second dean of

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's School of Business and Public Administration. His selection as Dean of the Johnson School coincided with a change in school curriculum, designed to bring the program into closer ties with the business community.Id. Litchfield was born in

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. He died in a plane crash over

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along with his wife, mother, two sons, and the pilot. He was a member of the Executive Board of the International Political Science Association.

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, a set of three high-rise student residence halls on the University of Pittsburgh campus, are named in his honor.

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's 1966 steel with bronze and glass sculpture ''Ode to Space'' was commissioned as a tribute to Litchfield after his death. It sits outside the entrance to

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and contains the inscription, ''labore ad astra'' or "to work toward the stars.

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* Obituary of Litchfield in '' Time (magazine), Time'' magazine * Files of Litchfield at the University of Pittsburgh {{DEFAULTSORT:Litchfield, Edward 1914 births 1968 deaths Chancellors of the University of Pittsburgh Cornell University faculty University of Michigan alumni University of Michigan faculty Brown University faculty American expatriates in Germany Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States 20th-century American academics Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1968