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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: Jan 28 2015 at 10:02pm |
Posted: 5:03 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 Local History: MUM campus was community effort
By Rick McCrabb Staff Writer About the only thing that hasn’t changed
over the last 50 years was the winter weather. On a bitterly cold morning on Jan. 28,
1965, The campus officially opened on Sept. 6,
1966, and in the 49 years since, it has seen tremendous expansion and student
enrollment. There were 1,426 students enrolled that first year, 822 daytime and
740 evening students. And today enrollment exceeds 2,900. Dick Slagle, 89, then CEO of the Middletown
Area Chamber of Commerce, recalls delivering the podium he made to the ceremony
that was held near the “That was a big day for the community,” he
said. “Very memorable, very important.” He
said more than $3 million was raised to bring MUM to the city by the “It wasn’t like it was all paper companies
and Armco,” Slagle said of the financial support. “It was truly a community
effort.” He said the leadership in the community saw
the value of bringing a regional campus — the first in the state — to the city. Slagle frequently drives by the university
and his mind immediately flashes back 50 years. He can’t help but think of the
impact the university has had on the community. Without MUM, Slagle said, there would be “a
big hole in the community. It has become a very important asset.” Rod Nimtz, who has been affiliated with Beginning with 147 students enrolled in
nine classes, by 1963 there were more than 700 enrolled in 57 classes, with
plans for offering 75 classes in 1964. But the growth of the The first student to enroll at MUM was
Robert C. Cordray II, of He remembers MUM’s humble beginnings. “There were still boxes in many of the
classrooms and chairs were still in boxes,” he said. “It was a barren existence
for the first little bit.” When the campus opened, Cordray said it was
almost “a curiosity” around town. “It is not polite to say, but some people
said it was just a high school with ash trays,” he said. “That was not the case
in any stretch of the imagination. As it became part of the community, as it
was accepted and it grew, it became a center of culture, a center of learning.” Armco eventually donated 135 acres to On that day 50 years ago, the official
welcome from the City of Acting Miami President Raymond Wilson
shared Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor John D.
Millett, who had been Perry Richardson, senior director of
marketing for Nimtz, now director of the Voice of America
Learning Center in
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Cooper
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MUM is 50 years old today. In its first year, it had 1400 students or so. Today it has 2900.
In 50 years, it has 2900 students. Did Cincinnati State make an error with a calculator in figuring 5,000 students in 5 years? Just saying....
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Mike_Presta
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(There's a lot more fertilizer thrown around downtown.) |
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Vivian Moon
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Cooper
I posted the enrollment numbers on this blog from the two other HEP schools in Mass. and they didn't have 5,000 students either. |
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