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History

Main article: History of the University of Chicago

Founding

Following the financial collapse and closing of the

Baptist Church began to make efforts to found another university in Chicago. One such Baptist, Dr. Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, wrote letters to philanthropist fellow Baptist John D. Rockefeller
asking for his support.

1920s-1950s

In 1921, the University's fifth president,

Committee On Social Thought
was created.

Money that had been raised during the 1920s and financial backing from the

Manhattan project.[4] The University was the site of the first isolation of plutonium and of the creation of the first artificial, self-sustained nuclear reaction by Enrico Fermi in 1942.[4][5]

In the early 1950s, student applications declined as a result of increasing crime and poverty in the Hyde Park neighborhood. In response, the university became a major sponsor of a controversial urban renewal project for Hyde Park, which profoundly affected both the neighborhood's architecture and street plan. For details of this urban renewal effort, see Hyde Park.[6]

1960s-1980s

The University experienced its share of student unrest during the 1960s, beginning in 1962, when students occupied President George Beadle's office in a protest over the University's off-campus rental policies. In 1969, more than 400 students, angry about the dismissal of a popular professor, Marlene Dixon, occupied the Administration Building for two weeks. After the sit-in ended, when Dixon turned down a one-year reappointment, 42 students were expelled and 81 were suspended,[7] the most severe response to student occupations of any American university during the student movement.[8]

In 1978, Hanna Holborn Gray, then the provost of Yale University, became President of the University of Chicago, the first woman ever to serve as the president of a major research university.[citation needed]

1990-present

In 1999, then-President

core curriculum, reducing the number of required courses from 21 to 15. When The New York Times, The Economist, and other major news outlets picked up this story, the university became the focal point of a national debate on education. The changes were ultimately implemented, but the controversy led to President Sonnenschein's resignation in 2000.[citation needed
]

In 2006, the University of Chicago's

1997 bombing in Jerusalem that the United States believes was funded by Iran. The ruling threatens the university's invaluable collection of ancient clay tablets
held by the Oriental Institute since the 1930s but officially owned by Iran.

In the past decade, the University has begun planning multi-millionare-dollar expansion projects. In 2008, the University of Chicago announced plans to establish the

Graduate School of Business, which is the largest gift in the university's history and the largest gift ever to any business school.[10] In 2009, planning or construction on several new buildings, half of which cost $100 million or more, was underway.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c http://president.uchicago.edu/history/hutchins.shtml
  2. ^ "The deal that almost was: 'The Universities of Chicago'". Northwestern University. Retrieved 2006-06-09.
  3. ^ http://www.uchospitals.edu/about/history.html
  4. ^ a b http://www.atomicheritage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155
  5. ^ "The First Reactor". 1982. Retrieved July 15, 2009. On December 2, 1942, in a racquets court underneath the West Stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi created man's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 69 (help)
  6. ^ Boyer, John W. "The Kind of University That We Desire to Become", Annual Report to the Faculty of the College (October 28, 2008). Excerpt available online at: http://www.uchicago.edu/pdfs/boyer_report.pdf
  7. ^ The University of Chicago - Alumni Weekend
  8. ^ Boris, Eileen. "Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  9. ^ "Milton Friedman Petition".
  10. ^ "Booth Donates $300 Million to Chicago Business School". Bloomberg. 7 November 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
  11. ^ http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0906/features/make_no_little_quads.shtml

References

  • Goodspeed, Thomas Wakefield (1916). A History of the University of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
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