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In the Commonwealth of Virginia sometime after we moved here in 2000, the College of Mary Washington became the University of Mary Washington in recognition of the number of graduate programs. There was much dissention about the decision.
Apparently GMU was originally named "George Mason College of the University of Virginia."
Longwood University was also founded under a different name as any member of the Farmville 4 would know. It was founded in 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, was designated as Farmville Female College in 1860. It became the State Normal School for Women in 1914, the State Teachers College at Farmville in 1924, and Longwood College in 1949.
IIRC, many of the old state teachers colleges in Massachusetts are now called UMass-Location.
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....but some are more equal than others.
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