Was President of University of Oregon
Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. Erb first came to UO in 1927 as an assistant professor of economics, teaching mainly in the field of transportation. He took a year's leave from the university in 1929 to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard. He returned to Oregon in 1930, as a professor of economics, where he stayed until moving to Stanford in 1933. While at Stanford, he served for a year as the acting chairman for the department of economics. In 1937, Donald Erb was selected to replace Clarence Boyer as university president. The decision was based largely on faculty opinion and preference and made Erb the youngest university president to-date. After several UO presidents who had served relatively short terms, Erb was selected at age thirty-seven, in part because it was believed he would give the university a president with a long tenure. In 1929, the state legislature created the Oregon State System of Higher Education and the University system in Oregon underwent a reorganization that resulted in classes and programs being eliminated at some colleges to avoid duplication. Many science programs at UO were eliminated. Erb worked to restore upper-level science courses to the UO, eventually seeing his work realized when the state board of higher education approved the re-establishment of major work in pure sciences in 1941. With the national economy improving somewhat, Erb used his considerable patience and powers of persuasion to gain the return of science classes to the UO. World War II saw students and faculty members depart for military service, but Erb foresaw their return and worked to prepare the university for an influx of ex-GIs when the war ended. In line with this, he also successfully lobbied the state board for funds for a student union building, an idea that had originated with former President Campbell in the 1920s. Erb, however, did not live to see this project completed, as he died of pneumonia in 1943 at age forty-three. The completed student union was named after Erb and dedicated as a memorial to him and to those from the university who served and died in World War II.
Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. Erb first came to UO in 1927 as an assistant professor of economics, teaching mainly in the field of transportation. He took a year's leave from the university in 1929 to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard. He returned to Oregon in 1930, as a professor of economics, where he stayed until moving to Stanford in 1933. While at Stanford, he served for a year as the acting chairman for the department of economics. In 1937, Donald Erb was selected to replace Clarence Boyer as university president. The decision was based largely on faculty opinion and preference and made Erb the youngest university president to-date. After several UO presidents who had served relatively short terms, Erb was selected at age thirty-seven, in part because it was believed he would give the university a president with a long tenure. In 1929, the state legislature created the Oregon State System of Higher Education and the University system in Oregon underwent a reorganization that resulted in classes and programs being eliminated at some colleges to avoid duplication. Many science programs at UO were eliminated. Erb worked to restore upper-level science courses to the UO, eventually seeing his work realized when the state board of higher education approved the re-establishment of major work in pure sciences in 1941. With the national economy improving somewhat, Erb used his considerable patience and powers of persuasion to gain the return of science classes to the UO. World War II saw students and faculty members depart for military service, but Erb foresaw their return and worked to prepare the university for an influx of ex-GIs when the war ended. In line with this, he also successfully lobbied the state board for funds for a student union building, an idea that had originated with former President Campbell in the 1920s. Erb, however, did not live to see this project completed, as he died of pneumonia in 1943 at age forty-three. The completed student union was named after Erb and dedicated as a memorial to him and to those from the university who served and died in World War II.
Was President of University of Oregon
Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. Erb first came to UO in 1927 as an assistant professor of economics, teaching mainly in the field of transportation. He took a year's leave from the university in 1929 to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard. He returned to Oregon in 1930, as a professor of economics, where he stayed until moving to Stanford in 1933. While at Stanford, he served for a year as the acting chairman for the department of economics. In 1937, Donald Erb was selected to replace Clarence Boyer as university president. The decision was based largely on faculty opinion and preference and made Erb the youngest university president to-date. After several UO presidents who had served relatively short terms, Erb was selected at age thirty-seven, in part because it was believed he would give the university a president with a long tenure. In 1929, the state legislature created the Oregon State System of Higher Education and the University system in Oregon underwent a reorganization that resulted in classes and programs being eliminated at some colleges to avoid duplication. Many science programs at UO were eliminated. Erb worked to restore upper-level science courses to the UO, eventually seeing his work realized when the state board of higher education approved the re-establishment of major work in pure sciences in 1941. With the national economy improving somewhat, Erb used his considerable patience and powers of persuasion to gain the return of science classes to the UO. World War II saw students and faculty members depart for military service, but Erb foresaw their return and worked to prepare the university for an influx of ex-GIs when the war ended. In line with this, he also successfully lobbied the state board for funds for a student union building, an idea that had originated with former President Campbell in the 1920s. Erb, however, did not live to see this project completed, as he died of pneumonia in 1943 at age forty-three. The completed student union was named after Erb and dedicated as a memorial to him and to those from the university who served and died in World War II.
Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. Erb first came to UO in 1927 as an assistant professor of economics, teaching mainly in the field of transportation. He took a year's leave from the university in 1929 to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard. He returned to Oregon in 1930, as a professor of economics, where he stayed until moving to Stanford in 1933. While at Stanford, he served for a year as the acting chairman for the department of economics. In 1937, Donald Erb was selected to replace Clarence Boyer as university president. The decision was based largely on faculty opinion and preference and made Erb the youngest university president to-date. After several UO presidents who had served relatively short terms, Erb was selected at age thirty-seven, in part because it was believed he would give the university a president with a long tenure. In 1929, the state legislature created the Oregon State System of Higher Education and the University system in Oregon underwent a reorganization that resulted in classes and programs being eliminated at some colleges to avoid duplication. Many science programs at UO were eliminated. Erb worked to restore upper-level science courses to the UO, eventually seeing his work realized when the state board of higher education approved the re-establishment of major work in pure sciences in 1941. With the national economy improving somewhat, Erb used his considerable patience and powers of persuasion to gain the return of science classes to the UO. World War II saw students and faculty members depart for military service, but Erb foresaw their return and worked to prepare the university for an influx of ex-GIs when the war ended. In line with this, he also successfully lobbied the state board for funds for a student union building, an idea that had originated with former President Campbell in the 1920s. Erb, however, did not live to see this project completed, as he died of pneumonia in 1943 at age forty-three. The completed student union was named after Erb and dedicated as a memorial to him and to those from the university who served and died in World War II.
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