The University of Nebraska at Omaha, inaugurated in 1968, emerged from the Municipal University of Omaha established in 1931, which grew out of the University of Omaha founded in 1908. In each of the school's three lives, the faculty sought to provide quality education for recent high school graduates and adults returning to school in a well-rounded learning environment. The commuter college moved from relying on charitable donations and tuition to a city tax base and ultimately state revenues. The campus grew numerically and spatially. Accommodating students and faculty, setting priorities and funding initiatives is a continuous challenge not always met expeditiously. The exciting visual cavalcade and text captures a century of public higher education in America's urban heartland and the role of graduates in American society.
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Oliver B. Pollak, holder of the Martin Chair in History, has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1974. He has published several books, including Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln: A Photographic History and Nebraska Courthouses: Contention, Compromise and Community. Les Valentine has been at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1972 as an undergraduate and graduate student and since 1986 as university archivist.
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In the articles of incorporation, signed on October 8, 1908, establishing the University of Omaha, the founders declared their goal to establish "a university for the promotion of sound learning and education . . . under such influence as will lead to the highest type of Christian character and citizenship, with the Bible as the supreme authority." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Milo Bail, University of Omaha, World War, Peony Park, South Dakota, University of Iowa, Daniel Edwards Jenkins, Dodge Street, Eppley Administration Building, African Americans, Alpha Xi Delta, Applied Arts Building, Chi Omega, Paul Beck, Rowland Haynes, Ruth Diamond New!
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In the articles of incorporation, signed on October 8, 1908, establishing the University of Omaha, the founders declared their goal to establish "a university for the promotion of sound learning and education . . . under such influence as will lead to the highest type of Christian character and citizenship, with the Bible as the supreme authority." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
municipal university Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milo Bail, University of Omaha, World War, Peony Park, South Dakota, University of Iowa, Daniel Edwards Jenkins, Dodge Street, Eppley Administration Building, African Americans, Alpha Xi Delta, Applied Arts Building, Chi Omega, Paul Beck, Rowland Haynes, Ruth Diamond New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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