Harold C. Case, Fifth President
from 1951–1967
A Kansas native, Harold Case pursued graduate study at Harvard University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University, and Boston University School of Theology. He was a successful minister at several large Methodist churches across the nation before assuming the presidency of Boston University in 1951. Case continued the postwar expansion of the University, building new dormitories and establishing the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now the College of Fine Arts), the College of Engineering, and Metropolitan College. In 1953, he created the African Studies Program and the same year invited the distinguished African American theologian Howard Thurman to be dean of Marsh Chapel.
