Iowa Board of Regents

Regents History: July 13-14, 1972

Board Membership

  • Stan Redeker, President, Boone
  • Ray Bailey, Milford
  • John Baldridge, Chariton
  • Margaret Collison, Oskaloosa
  • Ralph McCartney, Charles City
  • Ned Perrin, Mapleton
  • Mary Louise Petersen, Harlan
  • Donald Shaw, Davenport
  • Ralph Wallace, Mason City
     

The University of Iowa appointed Wallace Tomasini as acting director of the School of Art and Art History (SAAH) and Robert G. Hering as acting dean of the College of Engineering. Both appointments were noted as temporary, one-year positions. Tomasini would direct the SAAH for 21 years and become one of its most impactful leaders and scholars. Hering would serve as dean of the College of Engineering until 1992 and earn induction into the college’s Legacy of Iowa Engineering in 2005.

University of Iowa Professor of Geography Frank Horton was appointed Dean of Advanced Studies in the Graduate College. Horton would become the 3rd Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1980, the 11th President of the University of Oklahoma in 1985 and the 13th President of the University of Toledo in 1989. 

The University of Iowa presented a report regarding a proposal for a physician’s assistant training program. The proposal outlined a two-year program to train physician’s assistants within guidelines set by the American Medical Association and the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners. The program would begin on a pilot program basis during the Fall 1972 semester with “five to six students,” though 10 students were eventually enrolled. The proposal called on the Board to reevaluate the program after a period of five years when its initial funding from the Federal Bureau of Health Manpower expired. Today, the Carver College of Medicine’s Physician’s Assistant program ranks among the best in the world. 

The Board appointed Arthur Bergles as chair of the ISU Department of Mechanical Engineering. Bergles led the department until 1983. He was named an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 1981 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992. The department’s Bergles Professorship in Thermal Science was established through an endowment in 1996.

The Board approved the sale and award of $3.5 million in academic revenue bonds for the expansion of UNI’s Library. The Phase II expansion project expanded the library by 82,300 square feet and was completed in 1975. The Library was named in honor of Donald Olaf Rod, its director for more than 30 years, in 1986 and expanded again in 1995. 
 

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