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San Diego State University "Leadership Starts Here" 

San Diego State University (SDSU, San Diego State) is a public research university in San Diego, California, and is the largest and oldest higher education institution in San Diego County. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university in the 23-member California State University. 

 

Curriculum Connections: The Aztecs, JFK and 1968

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Union College "Under the laws of Minerva, we all become brothers and sisters"

 

Officially chartered in 1795,[ Union is the first non-denominational institution of higher education in the United States, and second college established in the State of New York.  During the sweeping span of 1636-1769 only nine institutions of higher education managed to set permanent roots in Colonial America. All had been founded in association with Anglo religious denominations devoted to the perpetuation of traditional forms of religious culture. Just Columbia University, birthed as King's College in 1754, had preceded Union in New York.

Twenty-five years later impetus for another school grew.

 

Certain that General John Burgoyne's defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 would mean a new nation, nearly 1,000 citizens of northern New York (which then included what eventually became Vermont) began the first popular demand for higher education in America. As a democratic tide rose and began to overtake the people old ways, in particular the old purposes and structure of higher education, were being pushed aside.

 

Schenectady, a city founded and dominated by the Dutch of some 4,000 residents, was after Albany and New York City the third largest in the state. The Dutch Reformed Church, progressive-thinking in comparison to the new nation's dominant Anglo denominations, began to show an interest in establishing an academy or college under its control there. In 1778, the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church invited the Rev. Dirck Romeyn of New Jersey to visit. Returning home, he authored a plan in 1782 for such an institution, and was summoned two years later[17] to finally come help found it.

 

 

Curriculum Connections: Mascot (Dutchmen); Notable Alumni: Chester Arthur, William Seward,  

Robert Toombs

Henry Rathbone, Major Charles Frederick Lewis

 

 

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Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC, or “Mass Aggie”) is founded under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide the commonwealth’s citizens with instruction in the “agricultural, mechanical, and military arts.” It struggles to define its mission and defend itself against the stubborn skepticism of some politicians and citizens.  https://www.umass.edu/150/timeline

 

 

Curriculum Connections: Mascot (Minutemen); .The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales. The Morrill Act of 1862 was enacted during the American Civil War and the Morrill Act of 1890 (the Agricultural College Act of 1890  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Mason University (GMU, Mason, or George Mason) is a public research university in Fairfax, Virginia. It was officially established in 1956 as a Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia and later became an independent institution in 1972

 

It has since grown to become the largest four-year public university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The university is named after the founding father George Mason, a Virginia planter and politician who authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the basis for the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.

 

 

Curriculum Connections: Mascot (Minutemen); George Mason, a Virginia planter and politician who authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the basis for the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. In 1787, Mason was named one of his state's delegates to the Constitutional Convention and traveled to Philadelphia

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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James Madison University "Knowledge is Liberty"

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly. It was originally called The State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1914, the name of the university was changed to the State Normal School for Women at Harrisonburg. At first, academic offerings included only today's equivalent of technical training or junior college courses; however authorization to award bachelor's degrees was granted in 1916. During this initial period of development, the campus plan was established and six buildings were constructed. The university became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg in 1924 and continued under that name until 1938, when it was named Madison College in honor of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States whose Montpelier estate is located in nearby Orange, Virginia. In 1976, the university's name was changed to James Madison University.

 

Curriculum Connections:  James Madison, Father of the Constitution , co- author of Federalist Papers and 4th President of the United States

 

 

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The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. The cornerstone of the University's first building was laid in 1817, with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe in attendance. The first class entered U.Va. in 1825, and the first degree was conferred in 1828.  

 

Curriculum Connections: Thomas Jefferson; Cavalier Mascot

 

 

 

 

 

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Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States.

 

Curriculum Connections: Chief Justice John Marshall ; https://issuu.com/marshalluniversityucomm/docs/the_symbols_and_traditions_of_marsh 

 

 

 

 

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University of Tennessee "You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

On September 10, 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state and at a meeting of the legislature of the Southwest Territory at Knoxville, the University of Tennessee was chartered as Blount College.  Tennessee has had several nicknames, but the most popular and well-known is "The Volunteer State," a nickname earned during the War of 1812 (thousands of volunteer soldiers from Tennessee played a prominent role in this war, especially during the Battle of New Orleans).

 

This reputation for volunteering was reinforced during the Mexican War when the secretary of state asked for 2,800 Tennessee volunteers and got 30,000 respondents

 

Henry Clay Jr. (April 10, 1811 – February 23, 1847) was an American politician and soldier from Kentucky, the third son of US Senator and Congressman Henry Clay and Lucretia Hart Clay. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1835 and served one term. A graduate of West Point, he served in the Mexican-American War and was killed in 1847 at the Battle of Buena Vista.

 

Although Tennessee was part of the Confederacy,  the state would furnish the Union with the most units from a Southern state than anywhere else in the Confederacy, totaling at 31,092.

 

 

Curriculum Connections: (Mascot) "The Volunteers", War of 1812, Mexican War| Henry Clay Jr., The Civil War 

 

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/the-switzerland-of-america/

 

 

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)    "Knowledge and Thoroughness"

 

RPI spans nearly two hundred years beginning with its founding in 1824. RPI is the oldest continuously operating technological university in both the English-speaking world and the Americas.[1] The Institute also holds the distinction of being the first to grant a civil engineering degree in the United States, in 1835.  More recently, RPI also offered the first environmental engineering degree in the United States in 1961, and possibly the first ever undergraduate degree in video game design, in 2007. 

 

 

Curriculum Connections: Mascot, founding (1824) Alumni Theodore Judah, George Washington FerrisWashigton Roebling 

 

 

 

 

University of Wisconsin  "Numen Lumen"   (The divine within the universe, however manifested, is my light)

 

The University of Wisconsin–was founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. It became a land-grant institution in 1866 

 

Miners who moved to the area in the 1820s and 1830s wasted little time in constructing shelters. Without shelter in the winter, they had to "live like badgers" in tunnels burrowed into hillsides, earning miners the nickname "badgers." The tools and techniques involved in lead mining in these early years were relatively simple and inexpensive, allowing lucky miners to strike it rich with little personal expense.

 

Curriculum Connections: Migration patterns, Immigration; Frederick Jackson Turner (Graduate), Lucky Lindberg attended,

Student protests over Dow Chemical recruitment, 

 

 

 

 

 

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Butler University  "Education, Research, Service" 

 

On January 15, 1850, the Indiana State legislature adopted Ovid Butler's proposed charter for a new Christian university in Indianapolis. After five years in development, Butler University opened on November 1, 1855, as North Western Christian University at 13th Street and College Avenue on Indianapolis' near north side at the eastern edge of the present Old Northside Historic District. Attorney and university founder Ovid Butler provided the property.

 

In Indianapolis, Ovid established a law firm with partners Calvin Fletcher, Simon Yandes and future Indianapolis mayor, Horatio C. Newcomb. Butler became interested and active in political and social issues. In 1849, Butler established the political and abolitionist newspaper Free Soil Banner. Due to bad health, Butler gave up his law practice in 1849, seeking retirement.

 

 

Curriculum Connections:   Sectional Issues, Founder Ovid Butler, Abolition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) Striving For Personal Excellence In Everything That We Do

 

 Stephen F. Austin is a public university located in east Texas.  Founded as a teachers' college in 1923, the university was named after one of Texas's founding fathers, Stephen F. Austin. Its campus resides on part of the homestead of Thomas Jefferson Rusk. Stephen F. Austin is one of four independent public universities in Texas (i.e., those not affiliated with one of Texas's six university systems). 

 

 

Curriculum Connections: Founder named after Texas founding father Stephen F. Austin; Migration to Texas 1820's 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The University of California, Berkeley     " Let there be light" 

 

 UC BerkeleyBerkeley,  is a public research university located in BerkeleyCalifornia. 

 


After the passage by the US Congress of the Morrill Act in 1862, the California legislature procrastinated in establishing a land-grant university. Meanwhile, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus to re-sell it in subdivided lots to raise funds

 

Founded in 1868, Berkeley is the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system and is ranked as one of the world's most prestigious universities and the top public university in the United States. the bear is a symbol of California...

 

Curriculum Connections UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942; During the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oathBerkeley gained worldwide reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War

 

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University of Kansas  "I shall see this great sight, why the bush does not burn". (Exodus 3:3)

Founded March 21, 1865, the university was opened in 1866, under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864[ following enabling legislation passed in 1863 under the Kansas State Constitution, adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union following an internal civil war known as "Bleeding Kansas" during the 1850s. 

 

The University of Kansas is home of the Jayhawk, a mythical bird with a fascinating history. Its origin is rooted in the historic struggles of Kansas settlers. The term "Jayhawk" was probably coined about 1848. Accounts of its use appeared from Illinois to Texas. The name combines two birds--the blue jay, a noisy, quarrelsome thing known to rob other nests, and the sparrow hawk, a stealthy hunter. The message here: Don't turn your back on this bird.

 

During the 1850s, the Kansas Territory was filled with such Jayhawks. The area was a battleground between those wanting a state where slavery would be legal and those committed to a Free State. The factions looted, sacked, rustled cattle, stole horses, and otherwise attacked each other's settlements. For a time, ruffians on both sides were called Jayhawkers. But the name stuck to the free staters. Lawrence, where KU would be founded, was a Free State stronghold.

 

During the Civil War, the Jayhawk's ruffian image gave way to patriotic symbol. Kansas Governor Charles Robinson raised a regiment called the Independent Mounted Kansas Jayhawks. By war's end, Jayhawks were synonymous with the impassioned people who made Kansas a Free State. In 1886, the bird appeared in a cheer--the famous Rock Chalk chant. When KU football players first took the field in 1890, it seemed only natural to call them Jayhawkers. How do you draw a Jayhawk? For years, that question stumped fans. Henry Maloy, a cartoonist for the student newspaper, drew a memorable version of the 'hawk in 1912. He gave it shoes. Why? For kicking opponents, of course.

 

 


 

University of South Carolina "Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros"   (Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel)

 

The University was founded as South Carolina College on December 19, 1801, by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly initiated by Governor John Drayton in an effort to promote harmony between the Lowcountry and the Backcountry. On January 10, 1805, having an initial enrollment of nine students, the college commenced classes with a traditional classical curriculum. The first president was the Baptist minister and theologian Reverend Jonathan Maxcy. He was an alumnus of Brown University, with an honorary degree from Harvard University. Before coming to the college, Maxcy had served as the second president of Brown and the third president of Union College. Maxcy's tenure lasted from 1804 through 1820.

 

The namesake town, Sumter, South Carolina, erected a memorial to Thomas Sumter (August 14, 1734 – June 1, 1832) a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia during the American War of Independence, a planter, and a politician. After the United States gained independence, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and to the United States Senate, where he served from 1801 to 1810, when he retired. Sumter was nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock," for his fierce fighting style against British soldiers after they burned down his house during the Revolution.

 

The town is dubbed "The Gamecock City" after his nickname. ("Gamecock" is one of the several traditional nicknames for a native of South Carolina.) The University of South Carolina's official nickname is the "Fighting Gamecocks." Since 1903 the college's teams have been simply known as the "Gamecocks."

 

Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, a fort planned after the War of 1812, was named for him. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.

 

Curriculum Connections: Mascot (Gamecocks) Sectional Issues, Thomas Sumter,  James Hammond (Alumni)

 

 

 

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West Virginia University, founded in 1867, has a long and rich history as a land-grant university.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, offering land grants of 30,000 acres of federally owned land to each state that agreed to establish a college to teach agriculture and the “mechanic arts” (engineering).

The State of West Virginia was formed the following year and, shortly thereafter, the state’s legislature accepted the terms for the Morrill Act to raise the money to start the new land-grant college they called the Agricultural College of West Virginia.

In 1868, the school’s name was changed to West Virginia University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Clemson was founded in 1889 through a bequest from Thomas Green Clemson, a Philadelphia-born, European-educated engineer, musician and artist who married John C. Calhoun’s daughter, Anna Maria, and eventually settled at her family plantation in South Carolina. A longtime advocate for an agricultural college in the Upstate, Clemson left his home and fortune to the state of South Carolina to create the institution that bears his name.

 

In November 1889, Gov. John Peter Richardson signed a bill accepting Clemson’s gift, which established the Clemson Agricultural College and made its trustees custodians of Morrill Act and Hatch Act funds, federally provided for agricultural education and research purposes by federal legislative acts.  Initially an all-male, all-white military school, Clemson Agricultural College opened in July 1893 with 446 students. Clemson became a coeducational, civilian institution in 1955 and was the first traditionally white institution in South Carolina to desegregate since Reconstruction.  With academic offerings and research pursuits, the institution became Clemson University in 1964.

 

 

 

 

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When the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy was established on April 16, 1913, with the signing of Senate Bill 183 by Governor O. B. Colquitt, a huge need in the mining industry had finally been filled. With 27 students enrolled, the school´s first term commenced in September 28, 1914. Boasting a modest three buildings on 22 acres at the site of the defunct El Paso Military Institute east of Fort Bliss, the purchase of the location with $50,000 in pledges from businesses and individuals began a long, close relationship between the school and the community.

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