Editing University of Utah (section)

==History==
[[File:University Hall (University of Utah).jpg|left|thumb|248x248px|University Hall in [[Salt Lake City]], the first permanent home of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah)]]
Soon after the [[Mormon pioneers]] arrived in the Salt Lake valley in 1847, [[Brigham Young]] began organizing a Board of Regents to establish a university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/thebeginningsoftheuniversityofutah.html |title=The Beginnings of the University of Utah |author=Yvette D. Ison |date=January 1995 |access-date=October 5, 2011 |publisher=[[State of Utah]] |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023133628/http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/thebeginningsoftheuniversityofutah.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the ''University of Deseret'' by the General Assembly of the provisional [[State of Deseret]], and [[Orson Spencer]] was appointed as the first chancellor of the university. Early classes were held in private homes, or wherever space could be found. The university closed in 1853 due to a lack of funds and lack of [[feeder school]]s.

Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City [[Council House (Salt Lake City)|Council House]], the university began to be re-established in 1867 under the direction of [[David O. Calder]], who was followed by [[John R. Park]] in 1869. The university moved out of the council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and onto [[Union Square (Salt Lake City)|Union Square]] in 1884. In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U.S. Army's [[Fort Douglas]] on the east bench of the [[Salt Lake Valley]], where the university moved permanently in 1900. Additional Fort Douglas land has been granted to the university over the years, and the fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991.<ref>{{cite web | title=Brief History of Fort Douglas | url=http://www.fortdouglas.org/fdhist.htm | publisher=Fort Douglas Military Museum Association | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329045126/http://www.fortdouglas.org/fdhist.htm | archive-date=March 29, 2009 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Upon his death in 1900, Dr. John R. Park bequeathed his entire fortune to the university.<ref name="sesquicentennial">{{cite web | title=University of Utah Sesquicentennial, 1850–2000 | url=http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD | publisher=[[J. Willard Marriott Library]] Special Collections | year=2000 | access-date=May 17, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116112412/http://www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary/menuitem.350f2794f84fb3b29cf87354d1e916b9/?vgnextoid=99f582749bbfb110VgnVCM1000001c9e619bRCRD | archive-date=November 16, 2008 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="history of utah">{{cite book | last = Whitney | first = Orson F. | author-link = Orson F. Whitney | title = History of Utah | publisher = George Q. Cannon & Sons Co | date = October 1904 | pages = 356–357 | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | volume = 4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=C0cOAAAAIAAJ}}</ref>

[[File:MountVanCott.JPG|thumb|The [[Block U]] has overlooked the university since 1907.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Block U | url=http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/blockU.html | publisher=University of Utah | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906033202/http://www.trademarks.utah.edu/traditions/blockU.html | archive-date=September 6, 2006 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>|209x209px]]
[[File:UofU campus close-up early 1920s.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Utah campus in the early 1920s|209x209px]]

The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an [[academic freedom]] controversy in 1915 when [[Joseph T. Kingsbury]] recommended that five faculty members be dismissed after a graduation speaker made a speech critical of Utah governor [[William Spry]]. One third of the faculty resigned in protest of these dismissals. Some{{Who|date=November 2017}} felt that the dismissals were a result of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]' influence on the university, while others{{Who|date=November 2017}} felt that they reflected a more general pattern of repressing religious and political expression that might be deemed offensive. The controversy was largely resolved when Kingsbury resigned in 1916, but university operations were again interrupted by World War I, and later [[The Great Depression]] and World War II. Student enrollment dropped to a low of 3,418 during the last year of World War II, but [[A. Ray Olpin]] made substantial additions to campus following the war, and enrollment reached 12,000 by the time he retired in 1964. Growth continued in the following decades as the university developed into a research center for fields such as computer science and medicine.<ref name="sesquicentennial" /><ref name="transition">{{cite book|last=Alexander|first=Thomas G.|author-link=Thomas G. Alexander|title=Mormonism in Transition|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|year=1996|pages=174–177}}</ref>

During the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], the university hosted the Olympic Village,<ref name="olympic village">{{cite web | title=Olympic Village | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000076,00.html | work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games | publisher=[[Deseret News]] and [[KSL-TV|KSL]] | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720044931/http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000076,00.html | archive-date=July 20, 2008 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> a housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.<ref name="olympic stadium">{{cite web | title=Rice–Eccles Olympic Stadium | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000075,00.html | work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games | publisher=[[Deseret News]] and [[KSL-TV|KSL]] | access-date=May 15, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725005228/http://deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,30000075,00.html | archive-date=July 25, 2008 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Multiple large improvements were made to the university prior to the events, including extensive renovations to the [[Rice-Eccles Stadium]],<ref name="olympic stadium" /> a [[light rail]] line leading to downtown Salt Lake City,<ref>{{cite web | title=UTA TRAX Light Rail | url=http://www.utahrails.net/uta/uta-trax.php | publisher=Don Strack | access-date=May 15, 2009 | archive-date=May 6, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506002013/http://utahrails.net/uta/uta-trax.php | url-status=dead }}</ref> a new student center known as the Heritage Center,<ref name="olympic village" /> an array of new student housing,<ref>{{cite news |last=Roche |first=Lisa R. |title=The Olympic Village: World's elite athletes to have rooms with a view, pizza with goat cheese |work=2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games |publisher=[[Deseret News]] and [[KSL-TV|KSL]] |date=January 10, 2002 |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,60000013,00.html |access-date=May 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026191143/http://www.deseretnews.com/oly/view/0,3949,60000013,00.html |archive-date=October 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and what is now a 180-room campus hotel and conference center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universityguesthouse.com/|title=University of Utah Guest House Hotel and Conference Center|publisher=University of Utah|access-date=October 9, 2013}}</ref>

The University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an [[international branch campus]] in the Incheon Global Campus in [[Songdo International Business District|Songdo]], [[Incheon]], South Korea in 2014. Three other European and American universities are also participating.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Park Hye-Mi|title=IFEZ on way to being the top free economic zone|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3018604|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=Korea JoongAng Daily|agency=JoongAng Media Network|publisher=JoongAng Ilbo|date=May 12, 2016}}</ref> The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wells|first1=David|title=Enrollment opens for U of U campus in South Korea|url=http://fox13now.com/2014/02/24/enrollment-opens-for-u-of-u-campus-in-south-korea/|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=Fox 13 Salt Lake City|agency=KSTU, Tribune Broadcasting|publisher=WordPress.com|date=February 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Whitehurst|first1=Lindsay|title=University of Utah to open Korean campus in September|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/news/57597090-78/campus-korean-university-students.html.csp|access-date=June 26, 2016|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=February 26, 2014}}</ref>

In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilets |first1=Kathy |title=New college of public health opens in Ghana |url=https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/03/03-13-2015_newcollege_Ghana.php |website=healthcare.utah.edu |access-date=November 12, 2019 |date=March 13, 2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112214527/https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/03/03-13-2015_newcollege_Ghana.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2019, the university was named a member of the [[Association of American Universities]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/three-leading-research-universities-join-association-american-universities|title=Three Leading Research Universities Join the Association of American Universities|publisher=Association of American Universities|date=November 6, 2019}}</ref>