University of Denver
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| University of Denver link () | |
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| Formation | 1864 |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado,USA |
| Type | private,reserach |
| Several of its alumni are high-ranking spooks. | |
The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest independent private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. DU enrolls approximately 5,700 undergraduate students and 7,200 graduate students. [1]
Several of its alumni are high-ranking spooks, especially from its Josef Korbel School of International Studies.
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University is a professional school of international affairs offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees. It is named in honor of the founding dean, Josef Korbel, father of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
The Department of International Relations at the University of Denver was first directed by Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington.[2] According to the University of Denver, "In 1938, Cherrington was handpicked by the United States Department of State to lead its new Division of Cultural Relations and tasked with carrying out 'the exchange of professors, teachers, and students...cooperation in the field of music, art, literature...international radio broadcasts...generally, the dissemination abroad of the representative intellectual and cultural work of the U.S.'"[2] Cherrington later became chancellor of the University of Denver from 1943 to 1946, and he was also a contributing author to the United Nations Charter.[3]
The Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) was established under the efforts of Josef Korbel, who became its first dean, in 1964. Decades earlier, he had been forced to flee during the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948.[4] Korbel was granted political asylum in the United States and was hired in 1949 to teach international politics at the University of Denver. To house the school, the 30,300-square-foot (2,810 m2) Ben M. Cherrington Hall was built in 1965.
References
- ↑ http://www.du.edu/explore/factsandfigures.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20120105171552/http://www.du.edu/korbel/about/ourhistory.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111206210222/http://library.du.edu/dupedia/category/people/chancellors/ben-cherrington
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516648