Robert M. Berdahl

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Robert M. Berdahl
Interim
Peter Tyrrell Flawn
Personal details
Born (1937-03-15) March 15, 1937 (age 87)
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota
ProfessionAdministrator

Robert Max Berdahl (born March 15, 1937) is a retired American college and university administrator.

Biography

Born in

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1961. He would later follow Otto Pflanze to the University of Minnesota where he received his doctorate in 1965, with a dissertation on the Prussian Conservative Party during German unification circa 1870.[3]

Berdahl was an assistant professor of history at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
, from 1986 to 1993.

He was president of

In December 2011, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education asked Berdahl to serve as the president of the University of Oregon on an interim basis. The presidency of the University of Oregon had recently been vacated by Richard Lariviere following his early termination by the state board.[4] Three months into Berdahl's presidency the faculty voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and American Association of University Professors, and a month later Berdahl agreed to end efforts to prevent certification by the Oregon Employment Relations Board.[7] Michael R. Gottfredson succeeded Berdahl effective August 1, 2012.[8]

Works

  • "New Thoughts on German Nationalism," The American Historical Review Vol. 77, No. 1, February 1972
  • "Conservative Politics and Aristocratic Landholders in Bismarckian Germany," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 44, No. 1, March 1972
  • "The Stände and the Origins of Conservatism in Prussia," Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring 1973
  • The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: The Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770-1848 (Princeton University Press, January 1989)

References

  1. ^ Quintero, Fernando. "Berkeley Welcomes Berdahl". University of California at Berkeley. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  2. ^ Graves, Bill. "Berdahl hired". The Oregonian. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Conversation with Chancellor Robert Berdahl, cover page". Globetrotter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  4. ^ a b "Berdahl named interim president | University of Oregon". Uoregon.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  5. ^ "Biography". Cio.chance.berkeley.edu. 2001-09-24. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  6. ^ "Robert M. Berdahl Profile - Forbes.com". People.forbes.com. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  7. ^ Dietz, Diane (2012-04-25). "UO's union objections withdrawn". Register Guard. Archived from the original on 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
  8. ^ Graves, Bill. "UO president finalist Michael Gottfredson tours campus with students, describes goals". Retrieved 13 June 2012.

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Academic offices
Preceded by President of the University of Texas at Austin
1993-1997
Succeeded by
Peter Tyrrell Flawn
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
1997-2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Association of American Universities
2006-2011
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the University of Oregon
Interim

2011-2012
Succeeded by