Nils Hasselmo
| Nils Hasselmo | |
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| President of the University of Minnesota |
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In office 1988–1997 |
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| Preceded by | Kenneth H. Keller |
| Succeeded by | Mark Yudof |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 2, 1931 Värmland County, Sweden |
| Alma mater |
Uppsala University Augustana College Harvard University |
Nils Hasselmo (born July 2, 1931) was the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997. He went on to become the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006.
Hasselmo was born in Köla parish in Värmland County, Sweden. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Scandinavian languages and literature at Uppsala University, and did his military service in the Royal Signal Corps, including officer's training. As a scholarship student in the United States in 1956-57, he received a B.A. at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. He finished a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1961.
After teaching at Augustana and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Hasselmo joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1965. During the next 18 years at Minnesota, he served as chair of the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature and director of the Center for Northwest European Language and Area Studies, associate dean and executive officer of the College of Liberal Arts, and vice president for administration and planning. In 1983, he left Minnesota to serve for five and a half years as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Arizona. He returned to the University of Minnesota as its 13th president in December 1988.
Hasselmo's scholarly work has focused on the study of bilingualism and language contact, including books and articles on the Swedish language in America. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Sweden and Iceland in 1968-69, and has lectured and served in visiting appointments at Scandinavian universities.
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