Arthur Hollis Edens

{{Short description|American academic (1901–1968)}}

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| name = Arthur Hollis Edens

| image = A. Hollis Edens, Chanticleer 1959 page 17.jpg

| caption = Edens circa 1959

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| title = 3rd President of Duke University

| term_start = 1949

| term_end = 1960

| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|2|14}}

| birth_place = Willow Grove, Tennessee

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|8|7|1901|2|14}}

| death_place = Atlanta, Georgia

| predecessor = Robert Lee Flowers

| successor = Julian Deryl Hart

| alma_mater = Emory University (B.Ph, MA)
Harvard University (MPA, PhD)

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Arthur Hollins Edens (February 14, 1901 – August 7, 1968) served as 3rd President of Duke University from 1949 to 1960. Duke's third president after the school's expansion from college to university, Edens was first president hired from outside the university since 1894, when John C. Kilgo was hired away from Wofford College. An executive with the Rockefeller Foundation and a native Southerner, Edens launched a capital gifts program and a national development campaign. The success of these efforts allowed Duke University to strengthen its endowment and experience a period of great growth during his presidency with the Duke University Union opening, academic units emerging, and the establishment of endowed professorships.[http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/presidents.html Duke's Presidents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328085742/http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/presidents.html |date=2013-03-28 }}. Duke University Archives. Accessed on February 14, 2008.