UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Spring 1991 Commencement Twin Cities Campus Board of Regents The Honorable Wendell R. Anderson, Wayzata The Honorable M. Elizabeth Craig, Minnetonka The Honorable Jean B. Keffeler, Minneapolis The Honorable Elton A. Kuderer, Fairmont The Honorable H. Bryan Neel, Rochester The Honorable Alan C. Page, Minneapolis The Honorable Mary J. Page, Olivia The Honorable Thomas R. Reagan, Gilbert The Honorable David K. Roe, Minneapolis The Honorable Darrin M. Rosha, St. Paul The Honorable Stanley D. Sahlstrom, St. Cloud The Honorable Ann J. Wynia, St. Paul Administrative Officers Nils Hasselmo, President Leonard V. Kuhi, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Robert Erickson, Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations C. Eugene Allen, Vice President for Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics Richard B. Heydinger, Vice President for External Relations Marvalene Hughes, Vice President for Student Affairs Cherie Perlmutter, Interim Vice President for Health Sciences The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs. facilities. and employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, handicap, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Table of Contents page The University of Minnesota. 5 Academic Costume .................................................................... 6 March Candidates for Degrees ......................................................... 7 College of Agriculture. 7 College of Agriculture and Carlson School of Management. .. 7 College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...................................... 8 College of Biological Sciences .......................................................... 8 School of Dentistry ............... 9 College of Education ................................................................... 9 College of Education and College of Agriculture . .. 10 College of Education and College of Human Ecology. .. 10 General College ...................................................................... 10 College of Human Ecology ............................................................. II College of Liberal Arts. .. 11 Carlson School of Management . .. 16 Medical School ....................................................................... 18 College of Natural Resources .......................................................... 18 College of Pharmacy. .. 19 School of Public Health . .. 19 Institute of Technology . .. 19 University College .................................................................... 23 June Candidates for Degrees ......................................................... 24 College of Agriculture ................................................................. 24 College of Agriculture and Carlson School of Management. 25 College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ..................................... 25 College of Biological Sciences ......................................................... 26 School of Dentistry . .. 27 College of Education. 28 College of Education and College of Agriculture ......................................... 32 College of Education and College of Human Ecology ..................................... 32 General College ...................................................................... 32 College of Human Ecology ............................................................ 33 Law School .......................................................................... 35 College of Liberal Arts ................................................................ 38 Carlson School of Management ........................................................ 53 Medical School. 56 College of Natural Resources .......................................................... 59 School of Nursing .................................................................... 60 College of Pharmacy .................................................................. 61 School of Public Health ............................................................... 62 Institute of Technology ................................................................ 63 University College .................................................................... 71 College of Veterinary Medicine ........................................................ 72 June Candidates for Commission . .................................................... 74 Additional copies of this booklet are available from University Relations, 6 Morrill Hall, 100 Church St. S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455. The University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, ranked among Two students received bachelor of arts the nation's top ten public universities, degrees at the first commencement in June reflects the commitment to education of a 1873. Since then, the University has granted state that is only 21st in population. It is a total of 440,139 degrees. Students earn almost alone among universities in the undergraduate and graduate degrees in more United States in its combination of three than 250 fields of study. characteristics: an international research The Duluth campus joined the University in university, a land-grant institution with a 1947, the Morris campus opened in 1960, strong tradition of education and public the Crookston campus in 1966, and the service, and a metropolitan academic Waseca campus in 1971. community. Enrollment in fall 1990 was 53,294 on all The Twin Cities campus, its largest campus, five campuses. Enrollment was 40,972 on is made up of 20 colleges and offers the full the Twin Cities campus, 7,923 at Duluth, range of academic and professional degrees. 2,021 at Morris, 1,046 at Waseca, and 1,336 A comprehensive campus in Duluth offers at Crookston. undergraduate and graduate programs. The Morris campus offers a four-year liberal arts During the 1989-1990 academic year, the program. Two-year technical colleges in University of Minnesota conferred 10,835 Crookston and Waseca provide degrees on all its campuses: 6,122 in July, paraprofessional and technical education, August, and December 1989 and March primarily in agriculture-related fields. 1990, and 4,713 in June 1990. Through the Minnesota Extension Service, University alumni include four Nobel Prize the University is present in each of winners, a former chief justice of the United Minnesota's 87 counties. States, two former vice presidents, the heads The University is the primary center in of Fortune 500 companies, pioneers in Minnesota (and parts of the surrounding medicine, civil rights leaders, top region) for instruction and research in the journalists, and men and women who have health sciences, law, engineering, achieved distinction in every field. agriculture, and forestry: it offers all of the Alumni and their families and friends are graduate-level programs in these fields. In always welcome at the University. Alumni all the arts and sciences and in teacher are invited to continue their relationship with preparation the University is the only the University through the Minnesota Alumni doctorate-granting institution in the state. Association and its college groups. When the University was founded as a preparatory school in 1851, Minnesota had been a territory for just two years, and statehood was still seven years away. The school was built on not much more than the pioneers' faith in education. The University struggled financially in its early years and was forced to close during the Civil War. It reopened in 1867. 5 Academic Costume Academic gowns date back to the 14th At University of Minnesota commencement century, when they served two functions of ceremonies-except those where master's nearly equal importance: to indicate the and doctoral degrees are awarded­ academic rank of the wearer and to keep the mortarboard tassels indicate field of study scholar warm in the drafty stone halls of (see list below), and honors students wear academia. gold epaulets. The side of the mortarboard on which the tassel hangs has no meaning, The markings, cut, and colors of the although at some schools the tassel is moved modern-day academic costume-cap, gown, from right to left when the degree is and sometimes hood-indicate the academic awarded. degree. the field of study, and the institution that granted the degree. In the United States, After receiving a degree, graduates may the bachelor's degree gown is black and wear academic costume on any appropriate untrimmed. occasion, always wearing a black tassel. College of Agriculture .................................. .. maize College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ................................... lilac College of Biological Sciences .............................................. golden yellow Continuing Education and Extension. .. orange and drab School of Dentistry. lilac College of Education . light blue General College ........................................................ crimson and white College of Home Economics ....................................................... maize Law School ....................................................................... purple College of Liberal Arts ............................................................. white Carlson School of Management. .. maroon and gold Medical School . green College of Natural Resources . maize School of Nursing . maroon and gold College of Pharmacy ............................................................... olive School of Public Health.