Full Description
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is the third-largest university in Indiana. Created in 1969, IUPUI combined Indiana University's professional schools and its undergraduate downtown Indianapolis campus with Purdue's science, engineering, and technology programs in the city. "IUPUI The Making of an Urban University" is the first comprehensive history of the school, its origins, growth, and development, and the creation of the current urban campus. It details the relationship between the university and the city during a period of dramatic growth for both. Ralph D. Gray examines the leadership of the university's three chancellors and explores student life at a "commuter campus" and the gradual development of its sports program. He looks at the school's many centers of academic excellence, including medicine and biotechnology, and important enterprises such as the Center on Philanthropy and the service center for Internet 2, which have positioned the university to play a major role in the future of the state.
Contents
List of Illustrations Photograph Acknowledgment Introduction Part I. Beginnings 1. Public Higher Education Begins in Indianapolis, 1890s 2. The Medical School Comes to Indianapolis 3. Dentistry, Law, and the Normal College 4. Purdue Returns to the City, 1940 Part II. Growth in the Post-War Era 5. The City Spreads Its Wings 6. Acquiring the Land 7. Herron School of Art Joins Indiana University Part III. New Creations 8. Merger 9. The Hine, Foremost 10. Defining and Defending IUPUI: Hine's LegacyPart IV. Consolidation 11. Irwin Moves Up, Again 12. Achieving Academic Respectability 13. The Sports Program 14. Student Life in the Asphalt Jungle Part V. Fruition 15. Those Who Teach and Serve 16. Here Comes the Law 17. Into the Twenty-first Century Notes A Note on Sources Index
