Frank Strong

Who is Frank Strong?

Frank Strong was the sixth Chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1902 to 1920. He was a graduate of Yale University, where he received the John Addison Porter Prize and was lecturer in United States history from 1897-1899. Strong wrote some works on the colonial history of the United States. Subsequently president of the University of Oregon from 1899 to 1902, he went to the University of Kansas next. Strong stormed onto campus declaring that KU was woefully inadequate and that much more money was needed. In return, KU would graduate students capable of solving the state's economic and industrial problems, he said. He won increased funding and founded the schools of education, journalism and medicine and expanded extension programs. Four more buildings were completed before he resigned to teach law.

Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas is named after Chancellor Strong . The building contains offices, classrooms, and an auditorium. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.