Kenneth Cannicott Rogers (born March 21, 1929) was the 5th president of

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Stevens Institute of Technology

Prior to becoming president of Stevens, Rogers was head of the physics department and obtained sizable grants under the last years of the

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administration; a factor that largely led to him being chosen. Within his first two years in office the number of nontenured faculty was cut by ten-percent. Shortly thereafter the University followed a national trend in huge drops in graduate enrollment between 1968 and 1974, following the end of the

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. At the same time, the independent corporate "Stevens Alumni Association" attempted to raise funds in parallel with an initiative by the Board of Trustees and President." Both initiatives suffered as a result of the other and in 1973 the Association amended its bylaws to put "contributions to the ssociation runStevens Fund under the direction of the Institute" and that said funds would "flow directly into the treasury of Stevens. Later that decade faculty of Stevens would become disgruntled and

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but be assuaged to come back under the pretense of the creation of a Faculty Council.Geoffrey Clark, ''History of Stevens Institute of Technology'' New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p.307 In line with the institute's founding principles set forth by early presidents

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and

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Paul Miller came to Stevens as "Artist in Residence" to further the well-rounded education of Stevens engineers. His most visible impact on campus, "The Concrete Bird" was erected in front of Palmer Hall and was later moved to the library. During the search for a president following Rogers' resignation, Richard Griskey guided the university. His most notable contribution was the establishment of a Cooperative Education Program that would combine engineering education with on-the-job training in a five-year program."Geoffrey Clark, ''History of Stevens Institute of Technology'' New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p.370

Specialized accreditation

Stevens Institute of Technology is known for its consistent history in a broad based engineering curriculum. Rogers' initial plan for specialized accreditation of specific subjects he was met with resistance from the board of trustees since it implied going astray from the broad-based core. Rogers urged that individual accreditation was critical to maintaining the university's undergraduate engineering enrollment; he believed the attraction of a General Engineering Program was dying. After deliberation the trustees accepted the plan with the stipulation that every student would still be provided with "an education including major elements of the classical fields of engineering, the basic sciences, the humanities and management, through a unified required core of courses that extends from the freshman year through the senior year and constitutes approximately three-quarter of the entire course requirements of the

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.".Geoffrey Clark, ''History of Stevens Institute of Technology'' New Jersey: Jensen/Daniels, 2000, p.368 Faculty arguments in favor of the accreditation included discrimination by recruiters, specific honor societies,

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, licensing boards, publication lists and prospective faculty.

Nuclear Regulatory Committee

In August 1987 the United States Senate confirmed Rogers' appointment by Ronald Reagan as a member of the

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. The hearing for his appointment feel under the

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in the preceding July and membership included

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and

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. Rogers ended his presence at the Institute after thirty years and immediately moved to

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and remains there to present day.

References

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