History of Arkansas Tech University
Est. 1909
Arkansas ranked 42nd out of the 46 states in annual per capita school funds at a mere $4.97 per student. Citizens started to feel the need for secondary education for their children most ardently. The Washington County Farmers’ Union started the concept of agricultural boarding schools. H.S. Mobley was one of the most fluent spokesman for the Union. He believed in vocational education, and he pleaded for schools where students might learn partly by working with their hands at practical farm work under trained instructors. In 1908, the Arkansas Democratic platform endorsed the idea of “farmer’s schools” and George W. Donaghey advocated four such schools in his campaign for governor. The bill that was introduced to the Senate was referred to the agriculture committee, which reported the bill back to the House of Representatives on January 30, 1909, with the recommendation that it be passed. The bill passed the House on February 5, 1909, and the Senate on March 23, 1909. It was signed into law as Act 100 by Governor Donaghey on April 1, 1909. By September 30, 1909, the board members had been appointed.
The town wishing to be considered as the location for one of the four schools must offer a minimum of $40,000 and a site of not less than 200 acres. The citizens of Russellville were very interested in meeting these bid conditions. A story in the January 1910 Courier Democrat stated that Atkins had raised $30,000 and 320 acres of land toward a bid for the school, apparently only four towns were in the final bidding; Fort Smith with $40,000 and 200 acres of land; Ozark with $40,000 and 200 acres of land; Russellville with $40,000 and 220 acres of land; and Morrilton with $46,000 and 200 acres of land. It originally appeared that Morrilton went to Ozark with the best bid. However, apparently at the last moment the Russellville delegation led by Judge R.B. Wilson raised its bid by offering free lights and water for three years. Russellville was also favored because of its healthfulness of location, its railroad connections with Dardanelle, Ola, Little Rock, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, its quality of soil, its central location in the district, its proposed site close to town, and its location directly on the water and light lines coming from the dam. February 10, 1910, was a great day in Russellville.
The Will County School District asked voters in February 1961 to approve a bond to raise $4,875,000 to build two new schools. The bond proposal was not approved by voters. The school board brought another proposal to the voters in December of 1961. This time the amount rose to $5,500,000
Texas A&M University and the University of Texas have been rivals for over 90 years. Every year Texas A&M held an annual bonfire tradition which attracts thousands of people. It is a tradition for Texas A& M to build a huge bonfire right before the game against rivals with University of Texas. Students would spend several weeks building the bonfire. On November 18, 1999 the stack of logs collapsed over and killed 12 A&M students. The aggie bonfire tradition would never again be the same.
Notre Dame has been amongst the top colleges since the day it originated on November 26th, 1842. It was started by a French priest Rev. Edward Sorin, and seven of his companions when they bought seven acres in the Indiana mission fields. When the school first started it was named L’Université de Notre Dame du Lac or The University of the Lady of the Lake. According to The university of Notre Dame’s history page, there was a disastrous fire that tore down the main building, which was the majority of the campus. Instead of tearing down the campus, Rev. Edward Sorin decided to fix the building and keep expanding the great campus. In the early years of Notre Dame, there were always no more than only a dozen students enrolled in the college. In 1889 the first residence halls were available to the students; promptly the hall was named Sorin Hall, which still stands today. According to Notre Dames strategic location and visions page on Notre Dames website, Notre Dame began to have many academic accomplishments. Some of these being they had the nation’s first Catholic law school in 1869 and in 1873 the first Catholic College of Business. (University of Notre Dame)
Slippery Rock University is located in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1889 and was known as the Slippery Rock Normal school with an enrollment of 168 students. The school started out as a teacher education institution. The school then became a four-year teacher’s college after it was purchased by the Commonwealth in 1926. The main focus of education during that time was health and physical education as well as elementary and secondary education. In 1960, the institution then became known as Slippery Rock State College that offered liberal arts and other professions allowing prospective students to earn their undergrad and graduate degrees. Between 1960 and 1970, the enrollment rose significantly by 24.1% eventually becoming
The name, Johnsonville High School, came from the name of the community and church. Before erection of the school building, classes were held in the Johnsonville Church and Mr. J.G. Smith was the
Then finally moving on to how does Ivy Tech Department of Public Safety respond to emergency situations. While there at Ivy Tech downtown campus there were two incidents which helped, me understand the polices on how Ivy Tech handles both criminal, and medical emergencies with the incidents being a disruptive student, and a student passing out temporarily. Both incidents were nothing major, however each incident revealed how each could be responded to and the ways each are handled. Starting with the disruptive student, which was handled by having another security officer and I escort the student out the classroom voluntary and had them write a voluntary statement explaining their side of the story, comparing it to the statement given by the
“The story of early Gatlinburg: A talk by Rellie Dodgen at the Gatlinburg Rotary Club”, 1959 May 22, 1971 February 3 [Article 2], Carson Brewer Articles, MS-2048. University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections. 17 March 2010.
This new four-room school was also designed by Lewis Hancock, Jr. It was built by Dickson City Lumber for $14,000. It opened on March 1, 1911, and was called the Roosevelt School. The principal at this school was Miss Gertrude Weaver. She was also a teacher at the school. The other two teachers were Bertha Walker and Mary McCormac. Together, they provided instruction for 120 students. Contrary to the local legend, President Theodore Roosevelt did not attend the dedication ceremony for this school. When Theodore Roosevelt visited the area in August of 1910, he saw the Roosevelt School in Pittston.
A Way for a University to be victorious, like Iowa State University, is to set several well planned goals that not only support it’s students but also there staff and alumni. Like the Strategic Plan here on campus is to “provide a high quality student life that engages students to learn, grow, and succeed as global citizens and involved alumni.” A certain place on campus that has been doing this is the Iowa State University Memorial Union. This practical and historic landmark on campus was one of the first building built here at Iowa State University. The “MU” as it may be named calls to not only to hold ISU’s plan but it also squires goals on its own, like “nurture common ground, enrich and sustain individuals lives, and remember.”
A vigorous reform movement occurred, committed to stop the decline of the school system by acknowledging the state’s influence. In 1837 this resulted in a state board of education,one of the first in the country assigned with collecting and publicizing school information throughout the state. Mann assumed stewardship as its secretary. Funds for the board’s activities were at a minimum, and his position required more moral leadership than anything else, and Mann proved himself up to the roll. He started a biweekly journal, Common School Journal,in 1838 for teachers and lectured on education to all who would listen. He also visited Europe to learn more about established educational principles, he came away particularly impressed with the Prussian school system. Mann had a list of main principles regarding public education and its troubles:(1)That a republic cannot long remain ignorant and free, hence the necessity of a universal popular education.(2)That such education must be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interest public.(3)That such education is best provided in schools embracing children of all religions, social, and ethnic backgrounds.(4)That such education while profoundly moral in character, must be free of sectarian religious
The issue of equality in education is not a new problem. In 1787, our federal government required all territories petitioning for statehood to provide free education for all citizens. As part of this requirement, every state constitution included, “an education clause, which typically called for a “thorough and efficient” or “uniform” system of public schools” (School Funding 6). Despite this requirement, a “uniform” system of schools has yet to be achieved in this country for a variety of reasons, many of which I will discuss later on. During the early part of th...
In 1965, the Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel designed an act that was part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, which had made available large amounts of resources for children that were less fortunate and educationally challenged. The Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA) passed through Congress and signed into law on April 9, 1965. With this act being signed, the Head Start program began. This program allotted funding to low-income areas with a concentration in preschool age children in order to properly prepare these children for grammar school beginning in the first grade (Schugurensky, 2001).
Even if the state pays a lot of money, that still doesn’t mean that the schools are well funded. In Hawaii, there is only one school district, and the state pays for nearly all of that district’s funding. Only 2% comes from property tax, and the rest comes out of income tax. But think about the industry in Hawaii- farming and tourism, t...
The federal government of 1980s attempted to reverse the trend of expansion and relaxed the monetary support of education. According to Christopher Cross (2010), the era of Reagan and George H. W. Bush was marked by “grants consolidation, more decision making at the state level, and extensive use of the federal bully pulpit” (p. 71). Reagan and congressional Republicans first passed the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act in 1981 to integrate and reduce the multitude of programs recently created. It returned authority to the states by granting more flexibility in how funds were to be distributed (Cross, 2010, p. 74). Even though the Reagan administration loosened the fiscal ties on education cutting federal funding by 30%, it relentlessly
These early schools to say the best, were absolutely awful. They were badly located, exposed to noise, and the dust and danger of the highway was unattractive. As well as this, the average child spent a couple years in school, and barely learned anything. They were taught just basic grammar, and math, even the white kids. Teachers had little formal training, and were barely smarter than the kids they taught, but higher quality teachers entered classrooms, which was a vast improvement to school in the 1900s. Most kids were supposed to go to school until they were 16, but most never made it past the 8th grade. Also only 11% of children ages 14 to 17 were enrolled in a high school, and only 6.3% graduated. Sometimes, students could be up to 25 years old! Another problem with schools is the fact that most were one roomed, and very crowded. Also, of the 151 day school year, the average student went 50 days less than