Under Hansen's administration, enrollment increased to more than 32,, and new buildings were constructed for agriculture, psychology, life sciences and athletics.
Hansen also supported the establishment of Purdue's first Black Cultural Center. Frederick L. Hovde came to Purdue at age 37 and presided over the University's greatest period of growth, leading to its emergence as a top research university. During his year leadership, Purdue saw its greatest enrollment growth — from 5, to 25, students. Hovde retired in as the University's longest-serving president.
While he was president, Purdue established the schools of industrial engineering, materials engineering, technology and veterinary medicine. Hovde Hall of Administration in his honor. Edward C. He was responsible for a major building program that saw construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, the Memorial Union and the development of the Purdue University Airport. He recruited top names to the University, including Amelia Earhart as a women's counselor, and he supported the Purdue Musical Organizations.
Elliott Hall of Music is named in his honor. After he served as the University's first vice president, the Purdue Board of Trustees named him the University's fifth president.
Stone originally came to Purdue as a professor of chemistry. He appointed Purdue's first dean of women, Carolyn E. Shoemaker, in The schools of agriculture and engineering grew rapidly during his tenure, which ended tragically when he was killed in a mountain-climbing accident in Canada in Purdue's fourth president, James H.
Smart was a self-educated New Englander. Smart is known in Purdue history as "the engineers' president. And then you have to be a little bit lucky, right?
In , she became the 11th president of Purdue University, serving a five-year term until reaching the mandatory retirement age 65 for university administrators. Her last official day as president was 15 July, and she remains on the faculty.
She admitted there are times when she considers what might have been had she remained a research scientist. In the back-and-forth of administrative battles, she said, it readily became apparent that was not always possible, especially during hard economic times when tough decisions had to be made about budget reductions and program cutbacks. She counseled persistence and sticking up for core values.
The leadership institute drew favorable comments from participants. Rouhana, whose heritage is Hispanic and Lebanese, was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and moved to El Paso, Texas, with his family as a teenager. Sounds like this Mitch Daniels hire is as devisive as you'd expect. I guess that was the inevitable response when hiring a politician.
Really, that's what we'll see. Daniels has face a lot of criticism, but he comfortably won a pair of terms in office. His second term saw him bicker with a democratic-controlled legislature, but he worked hard to make up a budget shortfall, thus showing he understands the very basic concept of "Don't spend more money than you have.
One of my favorites was his healthy Indiana plan, which encouraged people to take their health into their own hands with health-promotion programs like smoking cessation.
I realize this is not a political forum, but clearly there are people that are going to like Mitch Daniels and those that hate him. Being that this is a major educational institution it seems like it could benefit Purdue. Daniels' history with public secondary education was He did, however, push for the expansion of higher education. He created the online Western Governor's University and pushed for more adults to continue their education past high school.
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