Her Highness and the Bellboy by Hedy Lamarr

Her Highness and the Bellboy by Hedy Lamarr

State universities are more than just places of higher learning, more indeed than just campuses or buildings, and more than just students scurrying from class to class. They are a symbol of the future of the nation and a statement about the commitment the sponsoring state has made to its people. In turn each city or town that hosts, develops, and nurtures these institutions recognizes that it holds within the community one of the more precious jewels in a state's crown. So it is with the city of Columbia and the University of South Carolina.

Richard F. Galehouse has been involved in the university's master planning work for more than twenty-five years, making him more than qualified to take a lapidary look not only at the present and unfolding plans for the university, but also at the historic path that has brought it to its current luster. Encompassing its earliest days as Columbia College in 1801 (almost two decades before Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia); the devastating effects of the Civil War; the crisis years between 1861 and 1915, when the institution was closed twice and reorganized five times; and some bungled urban planning in the 1950s and 60s, Galehouse's candid examination details the growth of the university and speaks hopefully about its present and its future.

The city of Columbia and the University of South Carolina are unique in how they were designed to grow together, yet cosmopolitan in how they grapple collectively with the challenges and difficulties of combining the city's needs with the university's to create a symbiotic but nevertheless holistic community. The plan for this meeting of minds and needs is the meat of this narrative. The original and iconic Horseshoe grid of the city is echoed in the Innovista master plan outlined here, which will create in the city a shining setting for the university, one of its own most highly prized treasures.

A foreword is provided by Patrick L. Phillips, global chief executive officer of the Urban Land Institute (2009-2018) and an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education Program and at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

Robert B.Walker works in the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Commerce, where he teaches students how to pursue their passions and transform them into business. He graduated from Miami University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, an MBA from the University of Iowa, and a doctorate from Iowa State University. Before founding his own consulting firm, he worked for 18 years in community banks. He was the Executive Director of the American Institute of Banking, a subsidiary of the American Bankers Association, in East Central Iowa at the time. He spent nine years as the Banking and Finance Coordinator at Kirkwood Community College and five years as the Department Chair at Mount Mercy University before returning to his alma school, the University of Iowa.

Dr. Walker was a member of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs (ACBSP) Associates Degree Board of Commissioners and was instrumental in Kirkwood Community College's inaugural ACBSP certification. Sam M. was his name. Sam M. is a Walton fellow at Kirkwood Community College who founded the school's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team. Walton Fellow with the Enactus team at the University of Iowa.

He also serves as a faculty adviser for the Sigma Nu Tau entrepreneurial honors society and I-Envision, the University's student organization.