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During his tenure, Waugh served on numerous university committees, including scholastic standards, curricula and courses, and athletics. He served as a member of the University Senate, elected and ex-officio, during most of his years at the university. He was responsible for construction of the UConn
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in 1924. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1932, and professor in 1937. He served as head of the Department of Economics from 1939 to 1945, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1950, and provost of the university from 1950 to 1965, when he retired
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in the state. Waugh was also instrumental to launching UConn's early college experience program in 1956, making UConn the first in the nation to offer high school students the opportunity to take college courses in their high school settings. He dealt with numerous controversies during his time as
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in 1973. Waugh was the only American invited to join a German organization called "Friends of Old Clocks." He traveled to Europe four times to visit timekeepers there. In 1974, UConn dedicated in his honor a large sundial, garden, and quadrangle opposite the
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from 1950 to 1965. Waugh's journal, which he kept daily from 1941 to 1974, gave unique insight into the history, academics, and life of the university and was an important primary source for historians such as
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Waugh died on March 6, 1985, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, Edith, and sons John S. Waugh and Robert E. Waugh.
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selected him to attend the state's constitutional convention. Waugh served on the State Institutional Building Commission.
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in 1924 and his Master of Science degree from the Connecticut Agricultural College in 1926. He attended
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American economist and academic administrator at the University of Connecticut (1903–1985)
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Red brick in the land of steady habits: creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006
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town meetings for more than forty years, beginning in 1941. In 1965, the
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University of Connecticut Archives and Special Collections (2012).
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enthusiast, described as a "world authority" on the subject by the
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Albert E. Waugh Papers - UConn Archives & Special Collections
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Planetarium on North Eagleville Road in 1954. It is the oldest
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Economist, college professor, academic administrator
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Amherst, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Connecticut
economist
academic administrator
University of Connecticut
provost
Bruce M. Stave
Amherst
Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Frank Albert Waugh
United States Department of Agriculture
Frederick V. Waugh
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Columbia University
University of Chicago
Connecticut Agricultural College
agricultural economics
planetarium
McCarthyite
American Economic Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association of University Professors
Phi Kappa Phi
Willimantic
Mansfield
Connecticut Republican Party

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