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Robert Coldwell Wood (September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005) was an American political scientist, academic and government administrator, and professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969, Wood served as the Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon B. Johnson , and for two ...
5 de abr. de 2005 · Robert C. Wood, an academic, writer and bureaucrat whose acumen in domestic issues like housing and education prompted Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to seek his advice and...
Robert Coldwell Wood was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, on September 16, 1923, and served in the Army during World War II. After the war, he returned to the United States, receiving his B.A. from Princeton in 1946. He then went on to earn an M.A. (1947), M.B.A. (1948), and Ph. D. (1950) from Harvard. While working on his Ph.
A distinguished political scientist, specialist on urban affairs, and advisor to two U.S. Presidents, Robert Coldwell Wood was named in 1970 as the first President of the new University of Massachusetts system.
3 de abr. de 2005 · Robert C. Wood, 81, an academic who had a key role in starting the Department of Housing and Urban Development and was its first undersecretary before becoming president of the University of...
Robert Coldwell Wood (September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005) was an American political scientist, academic and politician. He was a professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969, Wood was the Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon B. Johnson. For two weeks in January 1969 ...
Wood, a former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and president of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, was an expert on education, housing, and urban and suburban development.
