Harold Wechsler, professor, has announced his intention of leaving Warner after almost 15 years of service to pursue an opportunity at New York University.

Wechsler has published widely on access, governance, business education, and the formation of curriculum and disciplines in American higher education. His books include: Jewish Learning in American Universities: The First Century (Indiana Press, 1994, with Paul Ritterband); The History of Higher Education (Simon and Schuster, 2nd ed., 1997, with Lester Goodchild); and Access to Success in the Urban High School: The Middle College Movement (Teachers College Press, 2001).

Wechsler teaches courses on governance, policy, and administration in higher education; the history of higher education and college students; and he leads a dissertation proposal writing seminar.

Sponsored by a major Spencer Foundation grant, Wechsler examined the development of how institutional policies and practices affected minority access to mass higher education in the 20th century. The four-year project allowed Wechsler to bridge his previous research on early 20th-century admissions policies with his studies of minority access to college since 1970.

Students and colleagues will dearly miss Professor Wechsler, and wish him great success in his new endeavors at New York University.