John Stuart Allen (1907 - December 27, 1982) was an American astronomer, university professor and administrator. Allen was the interim president of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, serving from 1953 to 1955, and subsequently became the founding president of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, serving from 1957 to 1970.
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- John Stuart Allen (1907 - December 27, 1982) was an American astronomer, university professor and administrator. Allen was the interim president of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, serving from 1953 to 1955, and subsequently became the founding president of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, serving from 1957 to 1970. Allen graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1928, with a master's degreefrom the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1929, and with a doctorate from New York University in New York City in 1936. While he was a graduate student at Minnesota, in 1933, he met and married the former Grace Carlton, an education student. He began his teaching career as an instructor at the University of Minnesota, later received an appointment as an assistant professor of astronomy at Colgate University. Allen also worked for the New York State Department of Education, where he eventually became director of the Division of Higher Education. Over the course of his teaching career, he authored three textbooks and more than seventy journal articles on such topics as astronomy, higher education and veterans' education. Allen served as the interim president of the University of Florida following the unexpected death of President J. Hillis Miller, Sr. in 1953. After his permanent successor, J. Wayne Reitz, assumed office in 1955, Allen returned to the university faculty and served as the executive vice president of the university until 1957. In 1956, the Florida Legislature approved the creation of a new state university to be located in Tampa, and the Florida Board of Control appointed Allen as the first president of the new University of South Florida. He served as its president from 1957 until his retirement in 1970. When Allen arrived in Tampa in 1957, the new university did not have a name, physical plant, faculty or students. He and his administrative team began to build a modern university from scratch. Thereafter, the university expanded rapidly, the first undergraduate classes were held in the fall of 1960, and the first graduate degree programs began in 1964. Under Allen's leadership, South Florida heralded itself as the "Harvard of the South," and emphasized academics to the complete exclusion of intercollegiate athletics. Allen was known for his opposition to college sports in favor of a more academically centered university environment. In recognition of the fundamental role Allen played in the creation and expansion of the new university, the Florida Board of Regents named the university's main administration complex the "John and Grace Allen Center" in honor of President Allen and university first lady Grace Allen, his wife.
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