Building excellence
Subtitle: University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire 1916-2016
By: Robert J. Gough and James W. Oberly, maps by Ezra J. Zeitler
Contributors: Oberly, James Warren, 1954- author
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Foundation
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Virginia Beach, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781681840260
Subjects: History; University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
Notes: "From a small normal school in 1916 with the single purpose of teacher training, the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire expanded into a large regional comprehensive university across the course of a century. Published as part of the university's centennial celebration, the Building Excellence: University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire, 1916-2016 narrates the story of UWEC"--inside flap.

Includes index and bibliographical note (pages 265-267).
Table of contents: title: Preface / Foundation President Kimera Way; title: Foreward / Chancellor James C. Schmidt; title: Introduction; title: In the beginning: Eau Claire builds a normal school; title: Institutional struggles and successes, 1916-41; title: The social and academic world of Eau Claire state students, 1916-41; title: Building a state college during a tumultuous decade, 1941-52; title: The college Leonard Haas built, 1952-64; title: The new university: excellence and growth, 1964-71; title: Pursuing excellence within a new state system, 1971-80; title: Conflicting paths to excellence, 1980-90; title: Redefining excellence at the end of the century; title: Measured excellence in the new century.