March 18, 2000(2000-03-18) (aged 97) Bloomington, Indiana
Resting place
Jamestown, Indiana
Parent(s)
Joseph Granville Wells Anna Bernice (Harting) Wells
Alma mater
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Occupation
Indiana University president, administrator, and faculty member
Monuments
Herman B Wells Library
Years active
1930–2000
Board member of
Indiana University Foundation; Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis (1936–71); Lilly Endowment (1972–2000)
Academic work
Discipline
Business administration
Institutions
Indiana University
Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 – March 18, 2000), a native of Boone County, Indiana, was the eleventh president of Indiana University Bloomington and its first university chancellor. He was pivotal in the transformation of Indiana University from a small, locally oriented college into a world-class institution of higher learning through expanded enrollment, recruitment of new faculty, construction of new buildings, new program offerings, and campus beautification projects. He remained steadfast in his support of IU's faculty and students, especially in the areas of academic freedom and civil rights.[2][3]
Wells began his career in banking, but served the university in a variety of faculty and administrative capacities during his seventy-year career at IU Bloomington: instructor and assistant professor, department of economics (1930–35; dean and professor of administration, school of business administration (1935–37); acting president (1937–38); and president (1938–62). He gave up control in 1962 to become university chancellor (1962–2000); interim president (1968); and chairman of the board of the Indiana University Foundation (1969–72), as well as other leadership roles at the IU Foundation.
^Kenneth Gros Louis (September 2007). "Herman B Wells and the Legacy of Leadership at Indiana University". Indiana Magazine of History. 103 (3). Bloomington: Indiana University: 291. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
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James H. Capshew, "Encounters with Genius Loci: Herman Wells at/and/of Indiana University," Perspectives on the History of Higher Education 28 (2011), 161–91.
^James H. Capshew (December 2011). "Making Herman B Wells: Moral Development and Emotional Trauma in a Boone County Boyhood". Indiana Magazine of History. 107 (4). Bloomington: Indiana University: 371. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
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