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Robert Hess (college president) was born on 18 December, 1932 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, US, is a President. Discover Robert Hess (college president)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 18 December, 1932
Birthday 18 December
Birthplace Asbury Park, New Jersey, US
Date of death (1992-01-12) Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York City, US
Died Place Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York City, US
Nationality United States

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Who Is Robert Hess (college president)'s Wife?

His wife is Frances H. Aaron (m. 1960)

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Parents Henry Hess (father)Ada Davis (mother)
Wife Frances H. Aaron (m. 1960)
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Children 4

Robert Hess (college president) Net Worth

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1992

He was a resident of Brooklyn. Hess was married to Frances H. Aaron in 1960, and had four children. Hess died January 12, 1992, in Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York of lymphoma.

1979

Hess was the sixth president of Brooklyn College, from 1979 until 1992. In a 1988 survey of thousands of academic deans, the college ranked 5th in the United States in providing students with a strong general education. Brooklyn College was the only college in the top five in the survey that was a public institution. While Brooklyn College was referred to as “the poor man’s Harvard,” Hess quipped: “I like to think of Harvard as the rich man’s Brooklyn College.”

1966

From 1966 to 1979, Hess taught history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1966, he was appointed an associate professor and promoted to full professor in 1971. At Chicago he served as Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and, beginning in 1972 Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

1965

Hess wrote several books and many articles on 19th century Africa, the Horn of Africa, and colonialism. Among them were Ethiopia: the Modernization of Autocracy (considered by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries to be one of the ten best books on Africa), A bibliography of the primary sources for nineteenth century tropical African history, as recorded by explorers, missionaries, traders, travelers, administrators, military men, and adventurers (1965), Italian Colonialism in Somalia (1966), Patrick Gilkes, the Dying Lion: Feudalism and Modernization in Ethiopia (1977), and Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (1978).

1958

He taught from 1958 to 1961 at Carnegie Institute of Technology, from 1961–62 and 1963–64 at Mount Holyoke College, from 1962–63 at Boston University, and from 1961 to 1964 at Northwestern University.

1956

He received both a Fulbright Fellowship (1956–1958 at the University of Rome in Italy) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1968–69). He received honorary degrees from: .

1954

Hess was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, to Henry and Ada (Davis) Hess. He attended Yale University, where he earned his B.A. (1954, magna cum laude), M.A. (1955), and Ph.D. (1960) degrees, studying African history.

1932

Robert Lee Hess (December 18, 1932 – January 12, 1992) was an American scholar of African history, and the sixth President of Brooklyn College.