to 825 with 25% having the rank of professor—becoming the third largest university in the US. During Coffman's time the Memorial Stadium was built, Northrop Auditorium and the Walter Library were added; and the Mayo brothers (Wm J. & Charles H.) gave the university $2 million for endowment of the Mayo Foundation for Graduate Medical Study and Research. Coffman's watch on the university included vigorous surveillance of alleged campus "radicalism," the number of Jews admitted to the university, and determined promotion of racial segregation in the university's dormitories. Black students mistakenly placed in university dormitories at admission were forced to leave, often after just one night's residence. Coffman rejected student protests. Despite a student-led substantial report comparing the university's segregated housing with integrated housing at other universities, Coffman insisted that "the races have never lived together nor have they ever sought to live together." Coffman's administrators compiled lists of "radical leaders" and numerical counts of Jews and blacks who had been admitted to the university, practices that continued throughout Coffman's presidency. University housing was integrated in 1938 only when the historian Guy Stanton Ford succeeded Coffman as President after Coffman's death. Housing segregation was briefly reintroduced when Walter Coffey succeeded Ford as President in 1941, but protests forced Coffey to abandon the attempt. After a year's leave of absence due to a heart attack at his summer home in Battle Lake, Minnesota, in July 1937, he resumed his job in July 1938. Coffman died on September 23, 1938. Opening in 1940, Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus is named in honor of President Coffman. References External links 1875 births 1938 deaths Indiana State University alumni Indiana State Sycamores football players Columbia Law School alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni Presidents of the University of Minnesota People from Salem, Indiana