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Robert Gerald Turner (born November 25, 1945) is the President of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.One of the most highly-compensated university presidents in the United States, [1] Turner has been described as a "transformational" [2] figure who helped rehabilitate SMU's national reputation following the infamous 1980s football scandal and NCAA death penalty.
In the winter of 1975, SMU hired Ron Meyer, an up-and-coming football coach who had previous success at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [4] In the late 1970s, attention around SMU football grew, and in the 1978 offseason the university launched a media campaign which caused its average home attendance to double from 26,000 to 52,000. [5]
Paul Hardin III (June 11, 1931 – July 1, 2017) was an American academic administrator who spent 27 years as a leader in higher education. He was the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1988 to 1995, president of Wofford College from 1968 to 1972, of Southern Methodist University from 1972 to 1974, and of Drew University from 1974 to 1988.
Joseph Paul Glick then became Blackstone's president from 1936 until the college temporarily suspended operations after the 1942–1943 academic year due to World War II. [ 4 ] [ 13 ] Immediately after the war (two weeks after V-J Day ), Blackstone College reopened for the 1945–1946 academic year with John Duncan Riddick as its president. [ 4 ]
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. This colloquial term compares it with capital punishment since it is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive, but in fact its effect is only temporary.
Methodist University suspended a sorority that was soon disbanded after members hosted an event that rated photos of Black football […] The post Sorority suspended at Methodist University for ...
After almost three months, Presbyterian College has ended its investigation into what the school's president called a "racist, misogynistic, and hateful" incident on campus.
Umphrey Lee (March 23, 1893 – June 23, 1958) was a Methodist theologian and historian who served as the fourth president of Southern Methodist University from 1939 to 1954. [1] [2] Lee, who had been SMU's first undergraduate student body president, succeeded religious hard-liner C. C. Selecman, and is remembered for fostering an intellectual environment conducive to free research and ...