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Pathways to Greatness: How the University of Michigan Became a World-Class University…and What it Cost with Terry McDonald

Event Details

date and Time

Thursday, April 8, 2021, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Event Type

In-person

Location

Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory 1398 E. Ann Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Colleges and universities themselves place great weight on their positions in a variety of rankings from a host of sources.

Terry McDonald, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History and Director of the Bentley Historical Library, explores the University of Michigan’s rise to it’s position as a leading public university by many measures and how the shifting ways those rankings were created impacted U-M—both for good and ill.