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The University of Chicago

Murray J. Leaf

pp. 265-291

Abstract

The University of Chicago was initially modeled on the University of Berlin. But Berlin was graduate-only, and unlike Berlin, Chicago had no system of purpose-designed preparatory schools sending it students. So it had to have something like a college. The dominant organizational problem for its first 90 years has been to develop an organization for the college that was not in conflict with the organization of the graduate divisions. This chapter describes the initial organization of the graduate divisions and the college, why they did not work together, why the "Hutchins College" failed as an alternative solution, and how the solution was finally found by recognizing a basic point of the current theory: a single group (of faculty) can have multiple organizations.

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Published in:

Leaf Murray J. (2019) An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy: the community of scholars in America. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 265-291

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92588-2_10

Full citation:

Leaf Murray J. (2019) The University of Chicago, In: An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 265–291.