Greenfield Eastern University
The Greenfield Eastern University (GEU) is a public land-grant research university in Greenfield, California. GEU is the flagship institution of the University of Greenfield system and was founded in 1898. Enrolling over 22,600 undergraduate and 12,800 graduate students, GEU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in California.
| Greenfield Eastern University | |
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| Status | Complete |
| Type | Education |
| Location | 1956, -713, Whitestone |
| Introduced | -- |
| Built by | Unknown |
| Motto | simul discere (Latin) |
| Established | May 17, 1898 |
| Budget | $4.6 billion (2020) |
| Chancellor | Eugene L. Peterson |
| Academic staff | 3,650 |
| Administrative staff | 24,860 |
| Students | 36,420 |
| Campus | Small city, 70 acres (28 ha) |
| Newspaper | -- |
| Colors | -- |
| Nickname | -- |
| Mascot | -- |
| Website | www.geu.edu |
GEU is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The University contains 12 academic schools and colleges, offering more than 120 undergraduate and 80 graduate programs of study. The University operates on an annual operating budget of over $4.8 billion in 2018, overseeing over 70 acres across Whitestone.
History
Greenfield University
Early in Greenfield's founding, many city leaders heavily leaned on their academic counterparts in higher education for city-planning recommendations and city-wide decisions related to education. As a result, many city leaders quickly jumped at the opportunity to plant a prestigious university in Greenfield when the President Lincoln signed the first Morrill Act of 1862, funding educational institutions to be established and endowed "land-grant" colleges. Plans for for the unofficial Greenfield University were promptly approved by city legislators and construction was soon after started in the Kennedy district. The Olancha Train Crash of 1863 put plans for the University on hold as school and construction leaders were forced to source alternative quarries in Central California for raw masonry materials to construct much of the planned campus. As a result of brief city leader corruption and backlogs of construction orders, plans for the unfinished Greenfield University were eventually wiped from Greenfield's future.
Franklin University
In 1869, a prominent city businessman named Geoffrey R. Franklin managed to reconvene city leaders and education officials in the region for plans of a new university located in Fort Franklin. Funded entirely through Franklin's shady business ventures, the new Franklin University arose from Greenfield University's past dormitory and academic hall plans. Classes began in the fall of 1871 when Henry H. Haight Hall was finished during the summer. For its brief 23-year history, Greenfield University was revered as a technological powerhouse in the region as it pushed out many successful graduates; however, growing faculty tensions with academic leaders came to a head when 94% of the university's faculty and staff when on strike over a long-stalled 12-year HR hiring and raises freeze during the spring of 1894. The following fall enrollment numbers reflected student's sentiment towards the University showing a 68% decrease in retention and enrollment numbers dropping too. With many students resorting to take classes elsewhere across the region and burnt-out professors becoming frustrated, city leaders promptly replaced the Board of Curators of the University to recoup loss in tuition and revenue. This change in leadership would show to be too late as records showed embezzlement and widespread corruption amongst University leadership, most of whom were directly or indirectly involved in Geoffrey Franklin's various businesses. The University was forced to file Chapter 11 forms to California education officials in late-1895. Greenfield city officials, fed-up with prior ventures of higher education attempts within the city, voted unanimously to replace the now-closed Franklin University campus with highly-needed apartments for low-income residents.
Greenfield Eastern University
During Version 0.5, the Kennedy district was rebuilt. With mounting external pressures of enrollment on at-capacity adjacent universities around Central California, state education leaders forced Greenfield city officials to reconsider building a new higher education complex. Taking no chances, extensive background checks and external system reviews of the new University were conducted to ensure its future with some university buildings being restructured brick by brick at the newly-restructured Whitestone district. After 3 years of construction and various starter education programs were tested amongst prominent faculty hired around the world, Greenfield Eastern University graduated its first class in the spring of 1898 with over 124 graduates walking at commencement.
Campus
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Academics
Divisions
Undergraduate
- Staples School of Architecture
- School of Education and Sciences
- Santana School of Music
- W. Daeger School of Engineering and Computing
- School of Nursing
- School of Theater and International Television Shows
Graduate
- Hedge School of Law
- Phillip Davidson School of Denistry
- School of Medicine
- P. Do School of Public Affairs
Rankings
Athletics
The University's sports teams are called the
Mascot
Something is the official symbol of GEU in university intercollegiate athletic programs.
Gallery
GEU upper quad looking from west
John Holick Student Center and Dugan Academic Building
GEU School of Medicine Center
GEU Fitness Center
GEU basketball arena
Unofficial fraternity and sorority row of GEU
Greenfield Eastern University logo
