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Years of Promise: The University of Utah’s A. Ray Olpin Era, 1946-1964

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Years of Promise reveals the the most important role that university president A. Ray Olpin played in transforming the University of Utah from a provincial college to a first rate national university.

Based on historical recovery work and analysis of archival records, this dramatic narrative provides an authentic and compelling account of Olpin’s tenure as president, placing him as a central figure in a key period in American higher education. With the end of World War II and the mid-century age of innocence, the University of Utah can have easily persisted as just a regional institution, a shadow of the international university it’s these days. Much of the success for that transition is owed to Olpin’s bold recruiting of new faculty with research interests and teaching abilities that would give rise to a grand new academic program. An influx of returning soldiers tripled enrollment from 4,000 to 12,000 all over Olpin’s administration. Steady and selfless, Olpin worked diligently in resolving challenges less regularly faced by larger, more established institutions, including defending academic freedom and educating local politicians about the possibility of the University of Utah to turn into the state’s flagship university.

Featuring a foreword by University of Utah president emeritus David P. Gardner, and a selection of outstanding photographs, Years of Promise is a portrait of uncommon leadership and foresight and a chronicle of how these traits shaped an unlikely university into the respected institution it’s these days.

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