Samuel Baskin

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Samuel Baskin was an American psychologist and education reformer. He taught at Stephens College and Antioch College and was the first president of the Union Institute & University. He studied at Brooklyn College and earned his Ph.D. from New York University. While directing educational planning at Antioch College, he helped create the Union for Research and Experimentation in Higher Education, which later became the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities and eventually Union Institute & University. As head of that union, he led the national push to offer University Without Walls degree completion programs at 17 U.S. universities, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Minnesota, and Howard University. He left academia in the late 1970s to work as a consultant for the Ford Foundation. Baskin received NYU’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He died in 2002 following a car accident.