East Tennessee State University
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| Established | Oct. 2, 1911 |
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| Type | State Funded |
| Endowment | $66.3 million |
| Chancellor | Dr. Charles W. Manning |
| President | Dr. Paul E. Stanton, Jr |
| Vice-Chancellor | David Gregory |
| Faculty | 725 |
| Staff | 2,087 |
| Students | 12,156 |
| Undergraduates | 10,204 |
| Postgraduates | 1,650 |
| Doctoral students | 302 |
| Location | Johnson City, Tennessee, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Buccaneers |
| Affiliations | NCAA Division I |
| Website | http://www.etsu.edu |
East Tennessee State University (abbreviated ETSU) was founded on October 2, 1911. It is an accredited American university located in Johnson City, Tennessee and is operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. ETSU has small off-campus centers in nearby Kingsport, Bristol, Elizabethton, and Greeneville, Tennessee.
ETSU was founded as East Tennessee State Normal School, to educate teachers; the K-12 training school, called University School, operates to this day. East Tennessee State officially became a college in 1925 when it changed its name to East Tennessee State Teachers College, subsequently gaining accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1927. In 1943, East Tennessee State Teacher's College was expanded into a college with a range of liberal arts offerings, becoming East Tennessee State College. The college became a University in 1963, adopting the name it holds today.[1]
Graduate programs include a fully accredited medical school, the Quillen College of Medicine, named in honor of U.S. Congressman James H. Quillen who successfully fought for its creation in the 1970s. In 2005 a College of Pharmacy was approved which will further augment the medical specialties at ETSU. Classes in the ETSU College of Pharmacy will begin in January 2007. The university is listed by The Princeton Review in their 2007 edition of America’s Best Value Colleges.
ETSU has been increasingly noted for its Appalachian Studies programs and features a nationally acclaimed and accredited program in Bluegrass and Country Music. Recording star Kenny Chesney, 2004 and 2006 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, graduated from the school, and holds a degree from the Mass Communications program. Another notable ETSU attendee is Timothy Busfield, known for his Emmy Award-winning role on the popular 1980s TV series thirtysomething. Busfield attended ETSU for a short while, but did not graduate. He starred in a series of advertisements for the school in the late 1980s.
Athletic teams, nicknamed the Buccaneers, compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Sun Conference. The 2005 move from the Southern Conference was an indirect result of ETSU's decision to drop football after the 2003 season. This left the campus' largest building, the "Mini Dome", an indoor arena which had previously been one of the few on-campus indoor venues for college football in the U.S., deprived of what was its originally-designed primary function, although the building remains ready to host (and frequently does) other events, including many which could not be housed in an indoor setting on most college campuses.
ETSU is currently making attempts at returning the football program. Student support of the return has grown greatly in the past two years. As current President Paul Stanton's last stand, the football team committee is currently making strong pushes for the recreation of the program before Stanton's term is over.
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[edit] Points of interest
[edit] External links
- ETSU Website
- ETSU Athletics Site
- Buc Football and Friends Foundation
- Johnson's Depot: East Tennessee State Normal School
- Buccaneer Nation, an ETSU Athletics Message Board
[edit] Fraternities
- Kappa Sigma - Lambda Beta
- Pi Kappa Alpha - Epsilon Zeta
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Sigma Chi
- Kappa Omega Xi
[edit] Sororities
- Alpha Delta Pi
- Alpha Xi Delta
- Kappa Delta
- Sigma Kappa
- Sigma Tau Delta, STD
[edit] Footnotes
| Atlantic Sun Conference |
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| Belmont • Campbell • ETSU • Florida Gulf Coast* • Gardner–Webb • Jacksonville Kennesaw State • Lipscomb • Mercer • North Florida • South Carolina Upstate* • Stetson * Future member effective 2007-2008 academic year |
| Tennessee public universities |
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| Austin Peay State University • East Tennessee State University • Middle Tennessee State University • Tennessee State University • Tennessee Technological University • University of Memphis • University of Tennessee • UT Health Science Center • UT Space Institute • University of Tennessee at Chattanooga • University of Tennessee at Martin |
