Word: minard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years that he has been at the University of Nevada, Minard Stout, 49, has in one way chalked up a record that any university president might envy. He trebled state support coming from bond issues and appropriations, upped private gifts ten times. He raised faculty salaries 68%, set up colleges of education and business administration, a graduate school, a school of nursing, and a junior college in Las Vegas. But ever since he got Biologist Frank Richardson fired for accusing him of lowering academic standards (TIME, June 15, 1953), he has been the center of the bitterest storm ever...
After hours of tortured soul-searching, the board of regents decided that it could not work with a man the majority so thoroughly disagreed with, asked for and got Stout's resignation. But in spite of all the controversy he had stirred up, Minard Stout had also aroused a good deal of sympathy in Nevada for the dogged kind of courage he constantly displayed under fire. "His enemies," said the Las Vegas Sun, "will admit his accomplishments were almost enough to outweigh his mistakes...
...Nevada is the only institution of higher learning in the state, anything that happens there is apt to make headlines. But not since its foundation 83 years ago have the headlines registered the bitterness they have shown in the past five years. Since he took over in 1952, President Minard W. Stout, 49, has been the center of so many political and academic storms that he now holds the distinction of being the most discussed figure in the state...
...team of seven educators hired by the Nevada legislature to investigate the University of Nevada's high-handed President Minard Stout, whose attempt to have a professor fired for protesting against the lowering of admission requirements resulted in the resignation of six others (TIME, June 15, 1953), finally handed down its verdict. "A state university," said the committee, "is neither an army nor a factory; its president is neither a general nor a businessman. The lack of respect for the faculty under the present administration has not only impaired faculty morale and effectiveness, but has damaged the national reputation...
...twelve hours, the regents of the University of Nevada pondered the case of Biologist Frank Richardson-the man who had criticized President Minard Stout for lowering admission standards (TIME, June 15). Was Richardson just a "buttinsky" as Stout had charged? Or did he have the right to express his views on educational philosophy and to criticize administrative policy? Last week the regents made up their minds: Richardson, having "demonstrated insubordination," must...