{"id":656,"date":"2010-09-01T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-09-01T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:00:22","slug":"connecticut-agricultural-college-welcomes-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/09\/01\/connecticut-agricultural-college-welcomes-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Agricultural College welcomes new President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl>\n<dt><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-657 \" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/mccracken.jpg?w=202\" alt=\"Charles Chester McCracken\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/mccracken.jpg 404w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/mccracken-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd>Dr. Charles Chester McCracken, 6th President of the University of Connecticut<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>On September 1, 1930, Connecticut Agricultural College welcomed Dr. Charles Chester McCracken as President.\u00a0 A former professor of school administration at Ohio State University, McCracken led the small agricultural institution through the tumultous early years of the Great Depression.\u00a0 Although he was not a successful administrator, McCracken presided over the accreditation of the college in 1930 by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the introduction of courses of study leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree (1933), and the renaming of the institution to Connecticut State College (1933).\u00a0 McCracken resigned in 1935 to accept the position of educational counselor for the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 In accepting McCracken&#8217;s resignation, Governor Wilbur Cross stated that McCracken &#8220;will now be able to devote his whole attention to educational problems without the worry of finances or the details in the administration of a college.&#8221;\u00a0 Additional information regarding Dr. McCracken&#8217;s tenure as President is available in the University Archives and in <em>Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits<\/em>, a narrative\u00a0history of the University of Connecticut by Dr. Bruce Stave published in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Charles Chester McCracken, 6th President of the University of Connecticut On September 1, 1930, Connecticut Agricultural College welcomed Dr. Charles Chester McCracken as President.\u00a0 A former professor of school administration at Ohio State University, McCracken led the small agricultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/09\/01\/connecticut-agricultural-college-welcomes-new-president\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}