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Marquette Presidents, Brad Stratton, Digital Scholarship Lab, Marquette University, Marquette University
Marquette Presidents, Brad Stratton, Digital Scholarship Lab, Marquette University, Marquette University
Digital Scholarship Lab
Former Senior Editor of Presidential Communication in the Office of the President, Brad Stratton, researched and documented past presidents biographies and events that occured during their tenure at Marquette. In late 2022, he approached the University Archives for advice about using these documents to display the history of the President's Office. In association with the archives, Stratton, and the Digital Scholarship Lab, we created a page to display his work as a timeline of the University's history.
This site is available at presidents.raynordslab.org
Principals And Presidents Of Marshall University: 1837-2013, Lisle G. Brown
Principals And Presidents Of Marshall University: 1837-2013, Lisle G. Brown
Librarian Research
Marshall University has been known by three official names, and thirty-nine individuals have guided it as its forty chief administrative officers—one man served as its principal twice. The institution began as Marshall Academy in 1837, was renamed Marshall College in 1858, and finally became Marshall University in 1961. Of the thirty-nine persons who have shepherded the institution during its one-hundred and seventy-five years, thirty-eight were men and one was a woman. Eight men were principals during the Marshall Academy years, and five were teachers who stepped in to keep the academy functioning during critical years, especially the Civil War. It …