Albert N. Jorgensen
7th President of the University of Connecticut (1935–1962)
Albert Nels Jorgensen (1899 – 1978) was an American academic administrator who served as the seventh president of the University of Connecticut (1935–1962). Its longest-serving president and its youngest at age 36 at the time of his appointment, Jorgensen led UConn's transformation from a sleepy agricultural college to a major modern university. UConn came into existence by renaming Connecticut State College in 1939. Student enrollment rose from 844 in 1935 to 11,877 in 1962—an increase of over 1,400%. Opened in 1955, the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on the university's Storrs campus was named in Jorgensen's honor. The Harriet Jorgensen Theatre is named after his wife.
Life and career
Born in Lanark, Illinois, in 1899 to Danish immigrant parents, Jorgensen was raised in Sabula, Iowa. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Coe College in 1921 and worked as school principal in Sabula, Iowa, and school superintendent in Arlington, Iowa. He received his MA degree in psychology from the University of Iowa in 1925 and PhD in educational administration from Iowa State University in 1929.
Jorgensen held positions at Iowa State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Buffalo (1931–1935) before assuming office as UConn's seventh president in 1935.
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