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8.18.2008 - 03:16pm ET
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Alfred Harcourt Foundation
Peter Jovanovich Named President of Alfred Harcourt Foundation
(CSRwire) NEW YORK, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Alfred
Harcourt Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter
Jovanovich as president, effective immediately. Mr. Jovanovich, who
currently serves as chairman, will manage the Foundation's program from
its new headquarters in Rye, New York. It is expected that a new
chairperson will be appointed in 2009.
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The Alfred Harcourt Foundation is devoted to giving four-year college
scholarships to under-privileged students. Through close attention and
follow-up with its scholars, the Foundation has enabled thousands of
students to graduate college and professional schools.
Mr. Jovanovich has led a distinguished career in the field of scientific,
trade and educational publishing. Now retired, he was most recently CEO of
Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world, and a
director of Pearson plc. Earlier in his career, he was CEO of Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and president of McGraw-Hill's Educational and
Professional Publishing Group. He was a past chairman of the Association
of American Publishers.
Jovanovich succeeds Dr. Michael Winston, who served the Foundation as
president since 1992. Dr. Winston expanded the Foundation's programs
significantly while continuing to focus its mission to serve the
disadvantaged.
The Board of Directors of the Foundation includes: - Daryl
Fox, a New York-based publishing executive in Higher Education for Pearson
- Dr. Sharon Robinson, President and CEO of the American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education
- Dr. Robert Sermier, Administrator and former CFO of John Jay College
of Criminal Justice, CUNY
- Dr. Cynthia Winston, Professor of Psychology and founder of the
Identity and Success Research Lab at Howard University.
For more information please contact:
Carla Eggers
Alfred Harcourt Foundation
1-800-745-8489
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Employment & Appointments and Academia
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