In memoriam: Edgar F. Beckham.AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. & U notes with deep sadness and regret the death on May 24, 2006, of Edgar F. Beckham, senior fellow and former member of the association's board of directors. Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Beckham was a committed and out-standing leader of national efforts to promote racial and cultural diversity on college campuses. Beginning in 1961, Beckham spent twenty-eight years at Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1831. There are special cooperative study programs with the California Institute of Technology and the engineering department of Columbia Univ. , where he held various teaching and administrative positions. In 1973, he became the first African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. dean of the college at Wesleyan--a position he held until 1990. In the 1990s, Beckham headed the Ford Foundation's Campus Diversity Initiative and, from 1992 to 1995, served as chairman of the Connecticut Board of Education. He joined AAC & U as a senior fellow in 1998. A beloved adviser and mentor Mentor, in Greek mythology Mentor (mĕn`tər, –tôr'), in Greek mythology, friend of Odysseus and tutor of Telemachus. to countless faculty members, administrators, and students, Beckham will be sorely sore·ly adv. 1. Painfully; grievously. 2. Extremely; greatly: Their skills were sorely needed. missed. The AAC & U community will celebrate the leadership and lasting legacy of Edgar F. Beckham on the evening of October 20 at the Diversity and Learning conference in Philadelphia. |
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