Meredith Jung-En Woo
Meredith Jung-En Woo | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66)[1] |
Occupation(s) | School of Politics and Global Studies faculty member at Arizona State University |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 우정은 |
Revised Romanization | U Jeong-eun |
McCune–Reischauer | U Chŏng'ŭn |
Meredith Jung-En Woo is an American academic and author. She is a Senior Fellow at the University Design Institute and a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies, both at Arizona State University. She served as President of Sweet Briar College and as the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the former director of the International Higher Education Support Program at the Open Society Foundations in London.
Personal life
Woo was born and raised in
Career
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Woo serves on the board of the American Hospital of Paris Foundation. She is a trustee of the
Woo taught at
Sweet Briar College announced that Woo would become the 13th president of the college; and was instated on May 15, 2017, replacing president Phillip C. Stone.[3][4] During her presidency the college underwent a comprehensive restructuring, consisting of an academic reset that replaced general education with a core curriculum on women leadership; tuition reset which brought down the published tuition from $36,000 to $21,000; and a curricular realignment that brought the number of majors from 42 to 16. In the fall[when?] following the restructuring, first year enrollment went up 42 percent.[5]
Works
She has authored and edited seven books, several published mostly under the name Meredith Woo-Cumings. They include Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991), which was published under the name Jung-en Woo; Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order (Westview Press, 1991); Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States (Cornell University Press, 1996), The Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 1999), as well as the co-authored report of the Presidential Report, "Building American Prosperity in the 21st Century: Report of the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy" (Government Printing Office, 1997). Her book Neoliberalism and Reform in East Asia (2007) was the result of a project sponsored by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Rockefeller Foundation.[2] She also published a book of essays under the title, Something New Under the Sun: Education at Mr. Jefferson's University.
She was executive producer of Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People, a film about Stalin's ethnic cleansing of Koreans during the Great Terror. It premiered at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and won the Best Documentary Award from the National Film Board of Canada in 2008.
- Woo, Meredith (1991). Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization. Columbia University Press.
- Woo, Meredith (1991). Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order. Westview Press.
- Woo, Meredith (1996). Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States. Cornell University Press.
- Woo, Meredith (1999). The Developmental State. Cornell University Press.
- Woo, Meredith (2007). Neoliberalism and Institutional Reform in East Asia. Palgrave.
- Woo, Meredith (2014). Something New Under the Sun. University of Virginia Press.
- Woo, Meredith; Cumings, Bruce (2006). "What Does North Korea Want?". New York Times.
References
- ^ a b Building American Prosperity in the 21st Century, Kenneth D. Brody
- ^ a b "New Dean: Meredith Jung-En Woo, expert on international political economy, appointed Arts & Sciences dean". A&S Online. 2008-04-24. Archived from the original on 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
- ^ Doss, Catherine. "Sweet Briar College announces Meredith Woo as next president". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Sweet Briar College names Meredith Woo as next president". 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Editorial: More accolades for Sweet Briar","The Roanoke Times", Sept 20, 2018. Retrieved on April 4, 2018.