The University of Chicago : a history /

The University of Chicago : a history /

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Author / Creator:	Boyer, John W., author.
Edition:	Enlarged edition.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024. ©2024
Description:	737 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Harper, William Rainey, -- 1856-1906. Hutchins, Robert Maynard, -- 1899-1977. Zimmer, Robert J., -- 1947-2023. University of Chicago -- History. University of Chicago (1857-1886) -- History. Universities and colleges -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13568821

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ISBN:	9780226835303 0226835308
Provenance:	Copy 2. Binding: includes dust jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [667]-693) and index.
Summary:	"This institutional history of the University of Chicago, as told by the longtime dean of the college, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer is both sweeping and precise in relating battles over finance, policy, and vision that shaped this legendary and groundbreaking institution. He details, too, some of the university's failures and weak periods. Boyer's tale is filled with larger-than-life-characters--John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many less famous figures among them--and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today's institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Two Universities of Chicago, 1857-1892
William Rainey Harper and the establishment of the new university, 1892-1906
Stabilization and renewal, 1906-1929
One man's revolution : Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1929-1951
The age of survival, 1951-1977
The contemporary university, 1978 to the present.