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- Prichard Committee Oral History Archive at UK<\/a><\/li>\n
- Robert F. Sexton Papers at\u00a0the University of Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n
- Prichard Committee Papers at the University of Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Who Was Ed Prichard?<\/div>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EdPrichard.jpg\")
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is named for Edward F. Prichard, a Bourbon County, Kentucky, lawyer, political reformer and lifelong advocate for the role of excellent education in building a civil and prosperous society. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, Prichard clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and helped craft Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal while working in the White House. Prichard was considered by many intellectuals, academicians and politicians to be one of the brightest young minds of his generation. His intellectual brilliance was counter-balanced with a trait that historian Arthur Schlesinger called\u00a0\u201ca fine but dangerous carelessness.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0A target of J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s campaign to discredit New Deal politics, Prichard was convicted of election fraud in Kentucky in 1949. Although he was pardoned by President Harry Truman, the scandal wounded Prichard\u2019s political career. He became a trustworthy advisor to Kentucky policy makers and in 1966 was appointed to the State Council on Higher Education by Governor Edward Breathitt. \u00a0From that position, Prichard engineered the rise of Kentucky\u2019s education system out of out of mediocrity. After serving 14 years on the Council, Prichard became chairman of a citizen\u2019s advocacy committee for excellent education, later named the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. The committee\u2019s first report,\u00a0\u201cIn Pursuit of Excellence,\u201d<\/em>is the Committee\u2019s seminal work and is considered a national model. Prichard died in 1984. His unwavering belief that \u201copening a way to a larger life was education\u2019s aim\u201d is the legacy that animates the Committee\u2019s work to this day.<\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row padding_size=”m-padding”][vc_column][wyde_heading style=”2″ title=”History” subheading=”PRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE” subheading_color=”#00853e”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner overlap_index=”50″][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Since 1983, the Prichard Committee has worked to study priority issues, inform the public and policy makers about best practices and engage citizens, business leaders, families, students, and other stakeholders in a shared mission to move Kentucky to the top tier of all states for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6375,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6376","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Robert F. Sexton Papers at\u00a0the University of Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n