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origins come from later reports (i l di a 1934 report that i i f l (including h transcribed the responses to Fisk's 1914 letter) and members' reminiscences. Recently discovered 1916 and 1917 articles on the association's meetings may more accurately report attendance than interviews conducted with members decades later and provide new information for this article.4 Additional universities represented at the 1914 meeting likely included the Universities of Nebraska, Kansas, and Wisconsin; Purdue University; Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa); and Northwestern University. Reporting on the 1917 meeting, Buildings and Building Management commented that because superintendents "have big problems on their hands of both construction and maintenance the advantages of finding out how the other fellow is doing his work is beneficial to all of them. Improvements and remodeling is going on constantly in almost every group of college buildings in the country." THE 1914 COLLEGE CAMPUS In 1914 the average campus had seven buildings averaging 131, 200 square feet.5 Professors and students were beginning to outgrow the lecture halls and laboratories that had defined colleges for decades. Expanded curricula would soon necessitate more sophisticated research facilities, buildings dedicated to spehi i d h f ili i b ildi d di d cific disciplines, and office space for faculty and student services. Along with the demand for improved facilities was an increase in the number of college students. In 1893, 595 U.S. colleges and universities enrolled 110,545 students; the number of institutions increased to 662 by 1916, while enrollments jumped to 329,387. That same year, the U.S. Education Bureau reported that "enormous expansion of State universities and state colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts [was] one of the outstanding features of the recent history of higher education."6 As representatives of major state universities, the founding APPA members' oversaw campuses at the forefront of this educational expansion. In 1914, the University of Iowa's 2,700 students could choose from ten colleges and four schools, located on a 50-acre campus boasting more than 30 buildings. Enrollment at the University of Wisconsin had nearly doubled between 1904 and 1914, reaching 3,830 undergraduates and 608 graduate students. To accommodate this growth, the university had expanded the campus to "36 large buildings, 43 of moderate size, and numerous small buildings."7 Purdue University's 2,399 undergraduate and graduate stuAbove: Aerial view (artist rendition) of the University of Wisconsin ca. 1916. Facilities Manager | september/october 2013 | 19 COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINMADISON ARCHIVES PPA's Early Years