Sheldon Hackney is Boies Professor of United States History and chairman of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Pre-Colonial America For details, see the main Pre-Colonial America article. ... The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, although the former is the preferred and recognized nickname of the University) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
SheldonHackney, professor and chair of history, has been named the David Boies Professor in SAS, Dean Samuel H. Preston announced.
President Emeritus SheldonHackney led Penn from 1981 to 1993, during which time Penn more than quadrupled its endowment and reaffirmed its commitment to undergraduate education.
Hackney returned to Penn in 1997 and teaches courses on the South since the Civil War, the 1960s, and the American identity.
SheldonHackney: You are at the forefront of a revolution in teaching, driven by and made possible by the computer.
Hackney: One of the things that one sees right away is the advantages and also maybe some of the dangers of this medium, just like fax machines and answering machines: It destroys the need for or obviates the need for simultaneity.
Hackney: I would think the worry for faculty and intellectuals in general, and maybe other authority figures, is that with democratized access to knowledge, if you think that knowledge is power, all of the mediating structures might no longer exist, so society doesn't need them anymore.
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