Book Highlights University of Illinois' 150 Years of Innovation
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 21 -- The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release:
Central Illinois in 1867 was not an obvious place to plant a university that would change the world.
Illinois had no public colleges and a short history of universal public schooling. Legislators wanted only practical instruction from their new institution. And the campus was in a muddy stretch of treeless prairie.
Yet almost from the start, Illi . . .
Frederick Hoxie, 847/404-9659, hoxie@illinois.edu
Central Illinois in 1867 was not an obvious place to plant a university that would change the world.
Illinois had no public colleges and a short history of universal public schooling. Legislators wanted only practical instruction from their new institution. And the campus was in a muddy stretch of treeless prairie.
Yet almost from the start, Illi . . .