1. Glenn Schroeder Dumke was an American historian, educator, university president, and chancellor of the California State University system.
18 Facts About Glenn Dumke
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Glenn Dumke served as the second chancellor of the California State University system from 1962 to 1982, for most of its first twenty years.
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Glenn Dumke developed common standards for the colleges and universities in the system, supported affirmative action to recruit women and minority students, and assisted the establishment of four new campuses.
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Glenn Dumke was born in 1917 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Glenn Dumke's father, William Frederick Dumke, was a buyer for a southern California grocery business.
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Glenn Dumke's mother, Marjorie Schroeder Dumke, was a homemaker who later went to work as a title searcher in Los Angeles.
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Glenn Dumke attended the University of California, Los Angeles's Training School and graduated from Glendale Hoover High School in 1934.
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Glenn Dumke was appointed the first vice chancellor for academic affairs of the CSU system.
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When Buell Gallagher, the first chancellor of the new system, resigned suddenly after only eight months on the job, Glenn Dumke was offered the position.
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Glenn Dumke began the practice of meeting monthly with the campus presidents, giving them significant input on system policies.
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Glenn Dumke pushed for strong accreditation standards, and a system-wide general education program.
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Glenn Dumke advocated for admission standards, which the CSU finally adopted in 1990.
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Glenn Dumke was a staunch opponent of student and faculty strikes in the period of unrest from 1965 to 1971, issuing a ban on faculty strikes in 1969.
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Glenn Dumke sat on the governing boards for Pepperdine University, University of Redlands, and the California Chamber of Commerce.
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Glenn Dumke was a member of a number of social clubs, including the Bohemian Club and the Commonwealth Club of California.
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Glenn Dumke was married to Dorothy Robinson Dumke for 44 years.
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Glenn Dumke died on June 30,1989, of a heart attack in Los Angeles.
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Dumke wrote several historical novels under the pseudonyms Glenn Pierce and Jordan Allen.