|
|
Article: University of Wisconsin
- Article from:
- Dictionary of American History
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 The Gale Group Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
The origins of higher education in Wisconsin came in the provision of the new state's 1848 constitution mandating the founding of a public, nonsectarian institution of higher learning, financed by the sale of the state's designated public lands. Its first legislature elected a governing board of twelve regents, charged with choosing a chancellor, purchasing a site, erecting buildings, buying books and scientific apparatus, and administering the university fund, derived primarily from land sale revenues. The new university was established at Madison in 1849.
Over the years, the state legislature gradually assumed the lion's share of the ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PARKSIDE STUDENTS, ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
December 11, 2009 ;
610 words
... ... Wis., Dec. 10 -- The University of Wisconsin-Parkside issued the following ... border to a southeastern Wisconsin house that will soon be a ... an area family, dozens of University of Wisconsin-Parkside students became ...
|
|