Algo Donmyer Henderson (April 26, 1897October 20, 1988)"ALGO HENDERSON (1897-1988)", SSDI
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and is associated with their shared governance model. He was a chief planner of the State University of New York.

Early life and career

Algo Donmyer Henderson was born in 1897 in

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, where his family lived on a farm. He was a

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. Henderson worked several jobs to fund his higher education, and attended five colleges. He graduated with

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and

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business degrees. In 1936, he became the president of

, a

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, experimental college He had been the executive vice president and acting president from 1934 until then. At 39, he was among the youngest American college presidents. He started a bronze foundry at Antioch to teach students small business management. Henderson is credited for Antioch's

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between faculty and administrators. In the late 1940s, Henderson became the associate director of the commission for creating a state university in New York State, leading to the

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and public

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. In 1947, Henderson left Antioch's presidency to serve New York State as the associate education commissioner until 1950. Upon his resignation, he joined the

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as a professor and began the first U.S. doctoral program for higher education administration. He retired from Michigan in 1967 whereupon he and his wife moved to

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, when she became dean of admissions at

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. Henderson joined the

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as a research educator.

Death

Henderson died of cancer on October 20, 1988, in

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at the age of 91. He was living in Orinda, California. He had written 14 books on education.

Personal life

At the time of his death, his wife was Jean Glidden. They met in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she earned her doctorate in 1967, and married in 1963. Henderson had a son, daughter, and stepdaughter.

References

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