When your school changes names

[Titchou]

True. No one remembers Auburn University's past names - except us Alabama fans who like to gig them just a little: East Alabama Male College then Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama and then Alabama Polytechnic Institute and finally Auburn University. Took 'em 4 tries to get Alabama out of their name!

[AZ-AlphaXi]

My alma mater started as Western Kentucky State Normal School, then added "and Teacher's College", then dropped the Normal School and became Western Kentucky State Teacher's College, then dropped the Teacher's to be Western Kentucky State College (which is was when my father started teaching there) and finally became Western Kentucky University. I attended the lab school for elementary and high school. That went from College High to University High even though its official name was WKU Training School.

[AZTheta]

TEMPE NORMAL SCHOOL. *



*waiting for those ASU people to jump me.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

TEMPE NORMAL SCHOOL. *



*waiting for those ASU people to jump me.

Ahhhh .. you beat me to it :-)

[AOII Angel]

My University changed names about two years after I graduated. The alumni were not happy about it and many still aren't. I claimed my alma mater again after we beat Bama a few years ago and Auburn last year (Go Warhawks!) but I will ALWAYS put that I graduated from Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana-Monroe) on my CV. I did NOT graduate from ULM and will not say that I did.

[pbear19]

I have friends who went to Southwest Missouri State University. Apparently, when it made the recent change to Missouri State, they were asked if they wanted a new diploma, but had to pay for it if so. I gather it wasn't exactly cheap, either!

My alma mater changed names immediately before my freshman year. Thus, I applied and was accepted to one school, but actually attended another.

As for the OP, I would just put the new name without reference to the old.

[DubaiSis]

I'd play along with that, but with our colonization right around the corner I have to defer my Big 10 competition in favor of Big 10 pride. Give me some time and I'll chime in with the jibes

[MaggieXi]

I was in the last graduating class at Elon College. My diploma says College, but the institution offered University ones to anyone who wanted one. When I write where I went to school I say Elon University bc it's just easier. When I've said college- people would ask if that was a separate institution. But if your in NC (and probably parts of Maryland and Virginia- it's just Elon).

I was also the last of the Fighting Christians. The mascot was changed to the Phoenix when the school joined SoCon.