Dick Sargent obituary

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My former colleague JR (Dick) Sargent, who has died aged 96, was the founding professor and chair of the economics department at Warwick University when it launched in 1965. Following a period of unrest, he was instrumental in reshaping the university to make it more democratic. The changes that were made reverberated through other universities.

Within a few years of Warwick’s launch many staff and students felt the university’s structure was insufficiently democratic and..


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source: The Guardian - 10.06.2022

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