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unusual facts about University President



Chūichi Ariyoshi

He was the first president of Keijō Imperial University in Seoul, Korea, from May to July 1924 during the Japanese rule period.

Elisabeth Zinser

Elisabeth Ann Zinser (born 1940) is a retired university president, most recently at Southern Oregon University (2001–2006) in Ashland, Oregon.

Henry Schultze

Henry Schultze (1893 – 1959) was an American academic and former president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

John Joseph Leibrecht

He was a close friend of the late J. Robert Ashcroft, President of Evangel University and father of former Attorney General John Ashcroft.


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Ann Hart

Ann Weaver Hart (born 1948), university president of Temple University

Arthur Adams

Arthur S. Adams (1896–1980), US academic and university president

Associated Students of the University of Oregon

This fee is assessed through a year long budget process and must be approved by the Senate, the ASUO Executive and the University President.

Benjamin Arnold

Benjamin Lee Arnold (died 1892), American academic and university president

Benjamin Thomas

Sir Ben Bowen Thomas (1899–1977), civil servant and university president

Birge Clark

His principal architectural works at Stanford are the Lou Henry Hoover House (assisting his father), now the residence of the university President, the three John Stauffer laboratories (1960’s), and the Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building (1977).

Caroline Harrison

After more than two decades at Miami, in 1845 Dr. Scott, along with several other professors, was fired from his position after a dispute with the university president, George Junkin, over slavery; Junkin supported it and Scott and the other men fired opposed it.

Clarence Munn

In 1947, Munn and the Michigan State administration, led by university president John A. Hannah, approached Notre Dame president Father Cavanaugh to have his Fighting Irish play the Spartans for the first time since 1921.

Del Moore

He made his feature film debut in Lewis' Cinderfella in 1960 and was the university president in 1963's The Nutty Professor.

Fordham Rams baseball

University President Joseph M. McShane, who had conceived of the anniversary game, threw out the ceremonial first pitch of the game.

Fred Glass

He was hired by university president Michael McRobbie on October 28, 2008, following the resignation of Rick Greenspan.

Galen Hall

University president Robert A. Bryan forced Hall's resignation in the middle of the 1989 season during another investigation of possible NCAA rule violations.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

On March 9, 2007, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger appointed Spivak University Professor, the institution's highest faculty rank.

George Lilley

George W. Lilley (1850–1904), American academic, professor of mathematics and university president

George Wythe University

At this same groundbreaking ceremony it was also announced that the school's leadership would assume new titles under the university model, with head administrator Shanon Brooks being named university president and chief academic Oliver DeMille receiving the title of chancellor.

Gerry Faust

Dennison, who is the Akron career wins leader for football, was forced out by university president, William Muse and athletic director, Dave Adams.

Goggin Ice Center

In 2002, university president James Garland made the executive decision that the new arena would be located across campus from the old “Goggin”.

Griffy Lake

University President William Lowe Bryan formed a committee led by geology professor E.R. Cumings, which on March 8, 1910, recommended a site for the new reservoir, which is now known as the University Lake.

Harry Byrd

Curley Byrd (1889–1970), U.S. politician, university president, multi-sport athlete and coach

Hugh Critz

This article is about the University President, for the baseball player see Hughie Critz

J. Lorand Matory

In the summer of 2005 Matory was one of the leaders of a group calling for a faculty vote of no-confidence in University President Larry Summers.

Jack Friel

The court inside Beasley Coliseum, the Cougars' home arena, was named after Friel in April 1977, as announced by university President Glenn Terrell at a meeting of the board of regents.

Jim Donnan

Donnan was fired by University President Michael F. Adams, against the wishes of athletic director Vince Dooley, in 2000 after the Bulldogs struggled to two consecutive eight-win seasons, and three consecutive losses against Georgia Tech.

JMWAVE

The University of Miami authorities denied knowledge of the CIA operation (though Shackley would claim privately that University President Henry King Stanford was fully aware) and JMWAVE changed its main front company name from Zenith to "Melmar Corporation".

John Maclean, Jr.

In the late 1820s, Maclean devised a plan to enlarge and improve the faculty, in hopes of reversing the declining enrollment which had beleaguered the university over the last few years, to the point that university president James Carnahan considered shutting down the institution.

Leonid Hurwicz

Accompanied by Evelyn, his spouse of six decades, and his family, he was the guest of honor at a convocation held on the campus of the University of Minnesota presided over by university president Robert Bruininks.

Northrop Field

The original field had seating of around 3,000 and was named for University President Cyrus Northrop.

Prudente

Nemesio Prudente (died 2008), Filipino political activist and university president

Reid Hoffman

His paternal great-great-great-grandfather was Christian Presbyterian minister and Indiana University president pro tempore Theophilus Adam Wylie.

Richard E. Cavazos

He is the brother of Lauro Cavazos, former Texas Tech University President and former U.S. Secretary of Education.

Richard G. Stern

It recounts Stern's successful attempt not only to save the review (the University President at the time, Lawrence A. Kimpton, wished to stop funding the journal) but to keep the following issue from dropping any of the pieces (of Naked Lunch and other "beat" works) that had been accepted.

Rick Tolley

His appointment was a unanimous recommendation by a special selection committee submitted to Donald Dedmon, executive vice president of the university, who made the final decision, in a absence of Roland Nelson, Marshall University president who was on vacation.

Rob McVicar

: For the Oregon State University President, see Robert W. MacVicar.

Robert Bryan

Robert A. Bryan, American university professor and university president

Robert Corrigan

:For the American university president, see Robert A. Corrigan.

Ron Prince

University president Jon Wefald denied any prior knowledge of this agreement and immediately called for Krause to resign, which he did, effective May 20, 2009.

Sage Chapel

Besides the university founders and chapel benefactors, others interred there include University president Edmund Ezra Day and his wife, former New York Governor Alonzo Cornell, philanthropist Jennie McGraw, her father John McGraw, and her husband,librarian & book collector Willard Fiske.

Taquini Plan

Leading Argentine university leaders in the past, notably La Plata University President Joaquín V. González and University of Tucumán founder Juan Bautista Terán, had advocated a more decentralized system as early as the 1910s.

University of Cambodia

Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, the university president, as well as Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia and an Adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, founded the school after his return to Cambodia from the US.

Warren Township High School

Michael M. Crow, Class of 1973, Arizona State University, President

WBRS

In the past, guests on the show included University President Jehuda Reinharz, world renowned economist Olivier Blanchard of MIT, as well as an exclusive 2004 interview with then Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Gregory Mankiw.

Western College Program

In March 2006, Miami University Provost Jeffrey Herbst recommended to Miami University President Dr. James C. Garland that the Western College Program be phased out in favor of expanding Miami's Honors Program.

WGU Indiana

The Chancellor reports to Western Governors University President Robert Mendenhall.

Willard L. Boyd

After ending his tenure as a university president, Boyd served as the President of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago from 1981 to 1996.

William Eugene Davis

William E. Davis, an American head football coach, former university president and Democratic politician

Wilson Caldwell

The UNC class of 1891 had a monument placed on his grave, a large sandstone obelisk once used to honor University president Joseph Caldwell.

Wilson Caldwell walked out with University President Swain, Judge W. H. Battle and others to the "foot of Piney Prospect to meet the incoming detachment of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry, in order to claim protection for the town and the University."

WMUB

In January 2007, University President David C. Hodge charged a committee to explore alternatives to address budgetary and technological challenges for WMUB.

WVUD

University President David Roselle requested that the call letters be changed to WVUD to reflect the station's university basis.