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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Yes -- but they are named after important people rather than along the lines of Mississippi University for Women. That's what I like. Texas also has Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston, which are "directional" schools in terms of the role they serve within the state but have their own brand names. George Mason Law School, for example, has in my view had an easier time branding itself than it would have if the university were still called the Northern Virginia University Center.
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This would only work in many places if the people the schools were (re)named after had been dead for a very very very long time, and I'm sure even in those cases there would be fights over it.
One of the SSHE presidents wanted to change the name of his school to Prominent Donor U (Prominent Donor has prominently donated to multiple schools in the area, not just this one, and he's NOT an alumnus of this school) and to say it didn't go over well is an understatement. SSHE schools are former teachers college and all follow the naming convention Townname University of PA. There's really no way to change one without the dominoes falling one by one and all of them changing, and I shudder to think what some of the names would end up being.