A history of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine: perspectives on funding the educational mission

This paper discusses the history of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. The history from the perspective of the political environment has been published by Mark R. Everett and Alice A. Everett, and the third edition of that series will be published soon by Regents Professor Mark Allen Everett, MD. These volumes are essential reading for a thorough understanding of the history of the college. In this paper, I will concentrate on the history of funding the educational mission. It is an interesting study of the politics of a state institution and reflects the history of the chronic underfunding of higher education in the state of Oklahoma.