A question for state schoolers

[LPIDelta]

I don't know anyone who calls it TSU--everyone I know calls it Texas State or "That school in San Marcos". And we rarely reference Round Rock.

[honeychile]

Laughing & remembering how frustrated my aunts were about me always confusing Pennsylvania State University and University of Pennsylvania as a kid - especially since two were professors at PSU!

[Senusret I]

More trivia:

The Normal School for Colored Girls was founded in 1851 in DC by Myrtilla Miner.
1861 - Became the Institution for Education of Colored Youth
1871 - Associated with Howard University as the Miner Normal School
1879 - Miner Normal School becomes part of the DC Public School system
1929 - accredited by congress as Miner Teacher's College
1955 - Merged with the all-white Wilson Teacher's College to become DC Teachers College
1977 - DC Teachers College merges with Federal City College and the Washington Technical Institute to become the University of the District of Columbia

I had teachers who went to the DC Teachers College.

[SWTXBelle]

I think TX State is clunky compared to SWTexas - but I'm biased. The school kept telling alumni "We won't be TSU "- and I guess they've been successful, but it seems to me a battle that didn't need to be fought.

Plus how would you yell "Who ya rootin' for - S W T ! Who are you - G Phi B!"???

And yes, TX State-Round Rock is hardly a blip on the radar, but if SOME had their way, we'd have TX State-Huntsville, TX State- Nacanowhere (you Texans know what I mean ) , etc.

The change from college to university is different. That is more of a recognition of a change in degrees offered than a mere whim of the administration.

[LXA SE285]

My alma mater started out as Alabama Girls' Industrial School in 1896, then became the Alabama Girls' Technical Institute in 1911, Alabama Girls' Technical Institute and State College in 1919 (it was previously just a high school/vo-tech school), Alabama College: The State College for Women in 1923, Alabama College in 1956 (after men were admitted), and finally the University of Montevallo in 1969.

Whew.