Stuart S. Nagel was Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

. Born in West Rogers Park, Chicago, he attended Senn High School

Senn High School

Nicholas Senn High School is located on the North Side of Chicago in the Edgewater community. Senn High School was inaugurated in 1913.-Education:...

 and Central YMCA High School

Central YMCA College

Central YMCA College was a college operated by the YMCA in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded prior to or in 1922. and was accredited in 1924. It was closed in 1945 after the University President, a large majority of the faculty and students left to form Roosevelt University.-Closing of the...

 at his hometown. Later he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, receiving a law degree in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Political Science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 in 1961. Well-known by having coined the terms "super-optimizing" and "win-win analysis", he advanced the boundaries of policy studies.

After his unexpected death on November 18, 2001, at the age of 67, the Policy Studies Journal published, in 2003, a series of articles about Mr. Nagel's personal and academic life, entitled Symposium in Honor of Stuart S. Nagel.

On September 13, 2007 Professor Emeritus Robert Weissberg

Robert Weissberg

Robert Weissberg is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois. He is the author of a number of notable books on politics and pedagogy. Weissberg has also written for magazines such as Forbes, and The Weekly Standard...

wrote in an article entitled The Hidden Impact Of Political Correctness that Stuart committed suicide partially because of an anonymous accusation of racism and workplace violence that resulted in an internal investigation and two federal trials.

External links

• Northwestern's Magazine note on Mr. Stuart Nagel's death.