Roosevelt University

by Laura Mills, Lynn Y. Weiner, Charles R. Middleton, President (Foreword by)

Overview

In 1945, faculty and students at Chicago's Central YMCA College walked out to protest admission quotas on race and religion and created one of the nation's first institutions to admit all qualified students. Despite having no endowment, library, or campus, Roosevelt College attracted more than 1,000 students in its first year. The next year, it purchased Chicago's famed Auditorium Building. By 1949, enrollment topped 6,000, and the Roosevelt story captured the nation's imagination. In 1954, Florence Ziegfeld's Chicago Musical College merged with Roosevelt, and five years later the college became a university. As it nears its 70th anniversary, Roosevelt has six colleges, two campuses, and over 85,000 alumni, including former Chicago mayor Harold Washington. This book celebrates a pioneering institution that helped shape the history of American higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467112475
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/15/2014
Series:	Campus History
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Laura Mills, university archivist at Roosevelt University, holds a master's degree in information and library studies from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree in history from Albion College. Lynn Y. Weiner, university historian at Roosevelt University, is also dean emerita of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of history. She holds a doctorate and master's degree in American studies from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Acknowledgments 7

Introduction 8

1 An Act of Courage 11

2 "A Model of Democracy in Education" 25

3 The Mission Continues 65

4 Building the Future 103