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2006
BAKER FORUM CORPORATE SPONSOR
We Gratefully
Acknowledge John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for its sponsorship
of the Baker Forum
The Wiley Lifetime Achievement Award
With the creation
of the Baker Forum, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. generously
established the Wiley Lifetime Achievement Award. This award,
bestowed at the Baker Forum, recognizes extraordinary leadership
and lasting contributions to American higher education and
public life.
David L. Goodstein,
Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
at Caltech is the recipient of the 2006 Wiley Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Past
recipients include:
William C. Harris, Director General, Science Foundation
Ireland (2004) and Walter E. Massey, President, Morehouse
College (2002).
About
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
John Wiley &
Sons, Inc. was founded in 1807, during the Jefferson presidency.
In the early years, Wiley was best known for the works of
Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and other
19th century American literary giants. By the turn of the
century, Wiley was established as a leading publisher of scientific
and technical information.
Wiley is a global
publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in
scientific, technical, and medical books and journals; professional
and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks
and other educational materials for undergraduate and graduate
students, as well as lifelong learners. Wiley publishes in
a variety of formats.
The company
provides "must-have" content to targeted communities
of interest. Wiley's deep reservoir of quality content, constantly
replenished, offers a tremendous source of competitive advantage.
Technology is making this content more accessible to customers
worldwide and is adding value for them by delivering it in
interactive and/or fully searchable formats. Approximately
25 percent of global revenue is currently Web-enabled. Wiley
expects to increase that figure to about 40 percent within
the next three years.
With about
3,500 employees worldwide, Wiley has operations in the United
States, Europe (England, Germany and Russia), Canada, Asia,
and Australia. The company has U.S. publishing, marketing,
and distribution centers in New Jersey, California, Virginia,
Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Wiley's worldwide headquarters
are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the river
from Manhattan.
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