Since its founding, only 13 individuals have held the position of Chancellor. These leaders have seen the University through periods of financial hardship, campus transformation, protest and unrest, significant growth in student and faculty numbers, historic fundraising and academic achievements, and changes to the landscape of American higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From Winchell<\/a> to Haynie<\/a>, this exhibition of documents and photographs from the University Archives<\/a> examines the ways in which each of the individuals who have held the University\u2019s highest office have shaped the institution from its humble beginnings to the modern, student-focused, research university committed to academic excellence and inclusion it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please note:<\/strong> This exhibition contains image and text-based archival documents. Please contact the Libraries’ Accessibility Specialist<\/a> if you require assistance accessing this content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn is Pan Am 103<\/a> Archivist & Assistant University Archivist in the Special Collections Research Center<\/a> at the Syracuse University Libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Header image:<\/strong> Photograph of Chancellor James Roscoe Day<\/a> speaking at Commencement in Archbold Gymnasium, 1916. Syracuse University Photograph Collection, University Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction Since its founding, only 13 individuals have held the position of Chancellor. These leaders have seen the University through periods of financial hardship, campus transformation, protest and unrest, significant growth in student and faculty numbers, historic fundraising and academic achievements, and changes to the landscape of American higher education. From Winchell to Haynie, this exhibition of documents and photographs from the University Archives examines the ways in which each of the individuals who have held the University\u2019s highest office have shaped the institution from its humble beginnings to the modern, student-focused, research university committed to academic excellence and inclusion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalexhibits.syr.edu\/chancellors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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