William Bowen, Influential Higher-Ed Thinker and President of Princeton and Mellon, Dies at 83

William G. Bowen, the longtime president of Princeton University and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation, died on Thursday at the age of 83. Over the course of six decades in and around academe, Mr. Bowen gained a reputation as a rare giant — a higher-education thought leader long before that phrase had entered common parlance.