Date Span: | 1899-1911 |
Creator: | MacLean, George E. (1850-1938) |
Extent: | 17.50 linear feet. |
Collection Number: | RG05.0001.006 |
Repository: | University of Iowa Archives |
Summary: | George Edwin MacLean served as the eighth president of the University of Iowa, from 1899 to 1911. |
Access: This collection is open for research.
Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Acquisition: These papers were transferred to the University Archives from the Office of the President; date undetermined. Guide posted to the Internet December 2006.
Preferred Citation: George E. MacLean Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.
Repository: | University of Iowa Archives |
Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
Phone: | 319-335-5921 |
Curator: | David McCartney |
Email: | david-mccartney@uiowa.edu |
Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/archives |
George Edwin MacLean served as the eighth president of the University of Iowa, from 1899 to 1911.
Under MacLean's leadership, the University of Iowa moved to the forefront of America's public universities. The university received high rank for the first time in a 1911 survey of the nation's universities conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Education.
MacLean received his A.B. at Williams College and, in 1874, his B.D. degree from the Yale Divinity School. After several years in the ministry, he studied at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. degree at Leipzig in 1883. After serving 12 years as a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota, he became chancellor of the University of Nebraska in 1897 before arriving in Iowa City two years later.
New colleges were organized at Iowa during MacLean's administration, including the College of Applied Science (later renamed Engineering), the College of Education, and the Graduate College. Most notable were his efforts to raise academic standards, including admission requirements and the level of scholarship at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
MacLean was born in Rockville, Connecticut, on August 31, 1850, and married Clara Stanley Taylor on May 20, 1874. MacLean died in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 1938, at age 87.
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Series 1: LETTER-BOOKS (COPIES OF OUTGOING TYPED LETTERS)
Series 2: CORRESPONDENCE
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