| 词条 | Bevan Morris |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Bevan Morris | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1949|3|3}} | birth_place = Adelaide | death_date = | residence = | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Maharishi European Research University | occupation = University president, politician | years_active = | employer = Maharishi University of Management | organization = Transcendental Meditation movement | agent = | known_for = | predecessor = | successor = | party = A founder of the Natural Law Party | movement = | opponents = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | callsign = | awards = | website = | footnotes = | box_width = }}Bevan H. Morris (March 3, 1949, Adelaide){{cn|date=November 2018}} was the president of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa for 36 years and a founder of the Natural Law Party.[1][2] Early life and educationMorris received his B.A. and M.A. in psychology and philosophy from Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University, England. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Vlodrop, Netherlands. Morris also holds a Doctorate of World Peace from MERU in Switzerland.[2] CareerEducatorIn September, 1980 Morris was appointed President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maharishi International University, which was renamed Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in 1995. During his tenure, there was expansion of the university campus, and accreditation through the Ph.D. level.[3] In the 1994, he was reported to be the lowest-paid college president in Iowa, receiving an annual salary of $9,000.[4]{{quotation needed|date=December 2013}} He is also on the board of trustees of the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment.[5] Morris became the Emeritus Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MUM in 2009 after having served as chairman for 30 years. He continues to serve as its president.[6] Morris is the International President of Maharishi Vedic Universities, a network of institutions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.[7] In March 2012, Morris toured 14 African countries, including Kenya, to promote Consciousness Based Education.[8] He retired as president in 2016. [9] PoliticianMorris was a founder and national chairman of the U.S. Natural Law Party (NLP).[1] He took a leave of absence from MUM to oversee John Hagelin's first campaign for U.S. President, in 1992[10][11] and praised Hagelin's "highly coherent brain".[12] Morris was described, in 1992, as the party's spokesman on education.[13] He was listed in 1993 as a candidate in the Commonwealth of Australia legislative election and[14] Morris was reported to be the leader of the Australian NLP in 1997.[15] OtherFrom 1975 to 1979, Morris was the international coordinator for MERU.[18]{{Clarify|date=March 2012}} In 1984, Morris toured the United States seeking practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program to form a group in Fairfield, Iowa.[16] Morris was appointed Chairman of the Maharishi Council of Supreme Intelligence of Age of Enlightenment in 1987.[17] In July, he was part of a team that demonstrated Yogic Flying to a group of 125 in a House office building in Washington D.C. and called on Congress to "seriously" examine its potential for creating peace.[18] In 1990 he published an open letter to President George H. W. Bush in the Washington Post asking for a $90 million annual expenditure to fund a group of 10,000 professional meditators as a further peace creation effort.[19] Personal lifeAs of 2009, Morris was living in Adelaide, Australia.[20] References1. ^1 {{cite news |title=Don't Take It Personal Meditation Technique Advocates Bring You Natural Law Party |first=Scott |last=Maier |work=Seattle Post - Intelligencer |date=22 September 1992 |page=b.1}} {{Transcendental Meditation}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Bevan}}2. ^{{cite web |title=Maharishi University of Management: Officers |accessdate=15 December 2009 |publisher=Maharishi University of Management |url=http://www.mum.edu/admin/officers.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5rcTmxHz2?url=http://www.mum.edu/admin/officers.html |archivedate=30 July 2010 |df=dmy }} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Iowa Town Booms On Eastern Ways; Meditation, Business Draw Residents |work=The Washington Post |date=9 August 2004 |page=A03}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=Grinnell President Leads in Private College Pay |work=Omaha World - Herald |date=30 July 1996 |page=9}} 5. ^1 Board of Trustees {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/5rcTl5gNj?url=http://www.mum.edu/admin/trustees.html |date=30 July 2010 }}, Maharishi University of Management 6. ^{{cite news |title=MUM Board of Trustees Appoints New Chairman and Vice-Chairman |work=Achievements |date=19 September 2009 |issue=50 |url=http://www.mum.edu/achievements/2009_09_19.html |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5rcTovCrw?url=http://www.mum.edu/achievements/2009_09_19.html |archivedate=30 July 2010 |df=dmy }} 7. ^{{cite news |title=Natural Law takes leap into 'higher education' |first=Pat |last=Bell |work=The Ottawa Citizen |date=7 November 1993|page=A6}} 8. ^"Kenya: Put Meditation in Syllabus, Says Don" Nairobi Star, 22 March 2012 9. ^ {{cite news |last=Hallman |first=Andy |title=Lynch addresses M.U.M. graduates |newspaper=The Fairfield Ledger |date=June 20, 2016 |url=http://fairfield-ia.villagesoup.com/p/lynch-addresses-m-u-m-graduates/1539411?cid=3621877 |accessdate=June 21, 2016}} 10. ^{{cite news |title=Natural Law Party Offers 'Common Sense' Approach |first=Tom |last=Buckham |work=Buffalo News |location=Buffalo, N.Y. |date=22 October 1992 |page=C6}} 11. ^"TM Followers Form Party" The Gazette (Cedar Rapids-Iowa City), 25 April 1992, Page 5 12. ^[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/514603221.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+30%2C+1992&author=&pub=The+Spectator&desc=Brain+scans+urged+for+national+candidates&pqatl=google "Brain scans urged for national candidates"] The Hamilton Spectator, 30 June 1992 13. ^{{cite news |title=Election 1992: Somewhere over the rainbow |first=Robert |last=Shrimsley |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London (UK) |date=4 April 1992 |page=5}} 14. ^{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Of Australia: Legislative Election Of 13 March 1993 |publisher=Psephos |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1993/1993repssa.txt |accessdate=16 December 2009}} 15. ^"PARTY MEMBERS `FLY' FOR PEACE", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19 July 1997 16. ^{{cite news |title=Power of TM: Followers take credit for upsurge in U.S. |first=Noel |last=Osment |work=The San Diego Union |date=9 June 1984 |page=A-21}} 17. ^1 "Bevan Howell Morris." Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC 18. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D9AqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x9UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2011,4688590&dq=bevan+morris&hl=en "Congress Told To Levitate Its Way to World Peace"] The Modesto Bee, 9 July 1987 {{dead link|date=October 2013}} 19. ^{{cite news |title=Iowans Push Federal Aid for Peace Meditation |work=Omaha World - Herald |date=13 April 1990 |page=13}} 20. ^{{cite news |title=M.U.M.'s Morris key to Butler trial negotiations |date=9 January 2009 |work=Fairfield Daily Ledger |url=http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20238392&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567522&rfi=6 |accessdate=20 December 2009}} {{dead link|date=October 2013}} 7 : Living people|1949 births|People from Adelaide|Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Transcendental Meditation practitioners|American university and college presidents|Natural Law Party (United States) politicians |
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