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{{Short description|American historian (1814–1896)}}
[[File:William Channing Russel, Cornell (cropped).jpg|thumb|Russel while a professor at Cornell]]
'''William Channing Russel''' (February 23, 1814{{Spaced en dash}}February 24, 1896) was an American historian and lawyer who served as the first vice president of [[Cornell University]] from 1870-1881. He was also the University's acting president during the absence of [[Andrew Dickson White]]. Russel worked closely with White on structuring Cornell in the University's early years.
== Biography ==
William Channing Russel was born on February 23, 1814. He was named after the clergyman [[William Ellery Channing]], his uncle. Russel attended [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] and graduated with an "*****" in 1832. He next attended [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1896-02-25 |title=William Channing Russel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/02/25/archives/obituary-record.html |access-date=2024-04-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After graduating, Russel practiced law in New York City.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Nidiffer |first=Jana |last2=Cain |first2=Timothy Reese |date=2004 |title=Elder Brothers of the University: Early Vice Presidents in Late Nineteenth-Century Universities |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3218133 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=487–523 |issn=0018-2680}}</ref>
By 1865, Russel was working in the US government's [[Freedmen's Bureau]]. Shortly after the end of the Civil War, he took a job as chair of history at the [[Antioch College]]. In 1868, the newly-established [[Cornell University]] hired Russel as a professor of South European languages and associate professor of history,<ref name=":0" /> making him one of the University's first two professors. Cornell historian [[Morris Bishop]] wrote that Russel's job title marked the "first use of the term 'associate professor' in American higher education."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_t1BAAAQBAJ |title=A History of Cornell |date=2014-10-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-5537-7 |language=en}}</ref> He was also named vice president of the University in 1870,<ref name=":0" /> a role he had been de facto carrying out since 1868. Russel was also involved in planning for the University's establishment, and traveled to Germany to study the structure of their universities' history departments.<ref name=":1" /> In his capacity as vice president, he served as acting president while Cornell's first president, [[Andrew Dickson White]], was abroad.<ref name=":0" /> Russel also urged the adoption of an 'elective system' of curriculum, and closely advised White, for instance urging the admittance of women to the University.<ref name=":1" />
In early 1881, Russel was forced to resign by the Cornell University Board of Trustees with little explanation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1881-05-02 |title=Cornell Students Anxious |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1881/05/02/...college-welfare-endangered-by-recent-and.html |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He continued to discuss issues concerning the University with White.<ref name=":1" /> Shortly afterwards, Russel was hired as the chair of [[Brown University]]'s history department, a role he held for two years.<ref name=":0" />
== Personal life and death ==
Russel had seven children.<ref name=":0" /> He died on February 24, 1896.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Keller, Dorothy Jean. [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Study_of_William_Channing_Russel_as_Fi.html?id=LElBAAAAYAAJ A Study of William Channing Russel as First Vice President and Acting President of Cornell University, 1870-1880]
[[Category:Cornell University Department of History faculty]]
[[Category:1814 births]]
[[Category:1896 deaths]]
[[Category:Harvard Law School alumni]]
Okumaya devam et...
{{Short description|American historian (1814–1896)}}
[[File:William Channing Russel, Cornell (cropped).jpg|thumb|Russel while a professor at Cornell]]
'''William Channing Russel''' (February 23, 1814{{Spaced en dash}}February 24, 1896) was an American historian and lawyer who served as the first vice president of [[Cornell University]] from 1870-1881. He was also the University's acting president during the absence of [[Andrew Dickson White]]. Russel worked closely with White on structuring Cornell in the University's early years.
== Biography ==
William Channing Russel was born on February 23, 1814. He was named after the clergyman [[William Ellery Channing]], his uncle. Russel attended [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] and graduated with an "*****" in 1832. He next attended [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1896-02-25 |title=William Channing Russel |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/02/25/archives/obituary-record.html |access-date=2024-04-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After graduating, Russel practiced law in New York City.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Nidiffer |first=Jana |last2=Cain |first2=Timothy Reese |date=2004 |title=Elder Brothers of the University: Early Vice Presidents in Late Nineteenth-Century Universities |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3218133 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=487–523 |issn=0018-2680}}</ref>
By 1865, Russel was working in the US government's [[Freedmen's Bureau]]. Shortly after the end of the Civil War, he took a job as chair of history at the [[Antioch College]]. In 1868, the newly-established [[Cornell University]] hired Russel as a professor of South European languages and associate professor of history,<ref name=":0" /> making him one of the University's first two professors. Cornell historian [[Morris Bishop]] wrote that Russel's job title marked the "first use of the term 'associate professor' in American higher education."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_t1BAAAQBAJ |title=A History of Cornell |date=2014-10-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-5537-7 |language=en}}</ref> He was also named vice president of the University in 1870,<ref name=":0" /> a role he had been de facto carrying out since 1868. Russel was also involved in planning for the University's establishment, and traveled to Germany to study the structure of their universities' history departments.<ref name=":1" /> In his capacity as vice president, he served as acting president while Cornell's first president, [[Andrew Dickson White]], was abroad.<ref name=":0" /> Russel also urged the adoption of an 'elective system' of curriculum, and closely advised White, for instance urging the admittance of women to the University.<ref name=":1" />
In early 1881, Russel was forced to resign by the Cornell University Board of Trustees with little explanation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1881-05-02 |title=Cornell Students Anxious |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1881/05/02/...college-welfare-endangered-by-recent-and.html |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He continued to discuss issues concerning the University with White.<ref name=":1" /> Shortly afterwards, Russel was hired as the chair of [[Brown University]]'s history department, a role he held for two years.<ref name=":0" />
== Personal life and death ==
Russel had seven children.<ref name=":0" /> He died on February 24, 1896.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Keller, Dorothy Jean. [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Study_of_William_Channing_Russel_as_Fi.html?id=LElBAAAAYAAJ A Study of William Channing Russel as First Vice President and Acting President of Cornell University, 1870-1880]
[[Category:Cornell University Department of History faculty]]
[[Category:1814 births]]
[[Category:1896 deaths]]
[[Category:Harvard Law School alumni]]
Okumaya devam et...