David C. Knapp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American academic
Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1927
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, United States
Date of Death: 13-Apr-2010
Profession: university teacher, academic administrator
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About David C. Knapp
- David C.
- Knapp (November 13, 1927 – April 13, 2010) was an American educational administrator. Knapp was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1927, and received his B.A.
- in political science from Syracuse University in 1947.
- He entered the University of Chicago; earning his M.A.
- in 1948.
- Knapp served in the U.S.
- Army's Second Armored Division in Ft.
- Hood, Texas and West Germany from 1950 to 1952 and returned to Chicago to complete his Ph.D.
- in political science in 1953. Knapp joined the faculty of the University of New Hampshire in 1953 as an assistant professor of government.
- From 1955 to 1961, he assumed the duties of assistant to the president in addition to that of associate professor.
- He served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UNH for 1961–1962.
- During his tenure at UNH, he took leaves as a Fulbright Scholar in Finland and a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University. In 1963, Knapp became associate director of the Study of American Colleges of Agriculture.
- The study was financed by the Carnegie Corporation, and was based at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- While still working on the study, Knapp became director of the Institute of College & University Administrators of the American Council on Education.
- He left both posts in 1968 to accept an appointment as dean of the New York State College of Home Economics.
- He proposed changing its name to the New York State College of Human Ecology, and Knapp was the first male to hold the post, a position he held until being appointed Cornell University provost in 1974 under President Dale Corson.
- Knapp addressed reductions in state funding, campus activism, and the expanding expectations of women students.
- He organized the merger of the Human Ecology College with a separate Graduate School of Nutrition.
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