Nicholas G. Penniman IV retired in 1999 as publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and as senior VP of newspaper operations for Pulitzer Publishing Company. A 1960 graduate of Princeton University he did graduate work at both the Wharton Graduate School and Washington University St. Louis. Penniman is currently chair emeritus of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center a trustee emeritus of the Everglades Foundation past chair of AmericanRivers and chair emeritus of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Penniman has four books-A Toxic Inconvenience: Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida s Coast Nature s Steward: A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida On The Knife: A History of Sugar in Florida and Enjoyment of the Same: A History of Public Lands in Southwest Florida. Penniman and his wife Linda reside in Naples Florida. Franklin Adams is a native of Miami and graduated from Miami-Dade Jr. College. He was a U.S. Army Engineer in Surveying & Mapping an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Marine and of course a Florida Master Naturalist. Recognized as a Guardian of the Everglades he is also a member of the National Izaak Walton League of America Hall of Fame Florida Wildlife Federation Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Wildlife Federation Special Conservation Award for a lifetime of dedication to the preservation and protection of the Big Cypress and the Everglades.

Originally published in 1999 Higher Education in the Post-Communist World focuses on specific public universities during their and their nations early transition years (1989-1995) from communism to democracy and the changes from centrally planned to free-market economies. The book offers a detailed view of universities in transition rather than case studies of entire systems of higher education providing an opportunity for readers to understand the national politico-economic transition on higher education- individual faculty students and administrator; departments; and university - in a more immediate way than a system-wide approach would. The book presents information on specific universities and how the demise of the Soviet Union affected the governance finance faculty students and curriculum in several post-communist countries.

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