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East Tennessee State University

East Tennessee State University Logo (Trademark of East Tennessee State University)
Established Oct. 2, 1911
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 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.

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[edit] ETSU Student Athletic Fee Increase - Football Funding Controversy

ETSU collegiate athletic teams, nicknamed as Buccaneers, presently compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Sun Conference. The 2005 move of the Bucaneers from the Southern Conference was an indirect result of ETSU President Stanton's decision to drop the ETSU NCAA Division I FCS football program after the 2003 season, with Stanton following the 1999 ETSU Athletic Task Force recommendations for cutting the cutting the ETSU football program that was posting close to $1 million in financial losses for ETSU each year between 1999-2003.[2]

The 2003 ending of the ETSU football program permitted the "Mini Dome" --- the largest building on the ETSU campus serving as an U.S. indoor arena venue for college football and track and field competitions --- to host over events, including many other non-athletic events which could not be housed in an indoor setting on most American college campuses. The dollar savings that resulted from ending the ETSU football program and the accompanying revenue loss was equally divided between both the ETSU athletic and academic departments.

[edit] ETSU Student Athletic Fee Increases For Football Proposed

ETSU President Stanton announced on December 22, 2006 that the ETSU administration is now supporting the return of the ETSU NCAA Division I FCS football program to the university, after accepting the recent ETSU Football Task Force report calling for increased student athletic fees to both restore the ETSU football program and additional funding for equivalent female athletic programs in order to meet U.S. federal Title IX gender equity requirements. Dr. Stanton has also stated that ETSU will "...need $4 million to $5 million" collected each year from of a combination students fees and private contributors to "...get it all done."[3]

Both the ETSU student body (by a referendum vote) and the Tennessee Board of Regents will need to approve Dr. Stanton's proposal to increase ETSU student athletic fees for funding a new football program before competing in the 2010 season.[4]

Dr. Stanton has also stated that ETSU generates approximately $500,000 of revenue from every $25 student athletic fees collected each semester at ETSU (i.e.: a conservative estimate of student fees fully funding ETSU football at the $5 million dollar level would amount to an additional $250 in ETSU student athleic fees each year).[5] During the last year of the ETSU football program in 2003, ETSU was only able to raise $127,000 (of the minimum $1.5 million needed) in private contributions toward the operating costs that will associated with the ETSU football program (excluding approximately $15 million dollars for a new 10,000 seat stadium).[6]

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  1. ^ History Page @ Official Site
  2. ^ Buc Football and Friends Foundation - online forum.
  3. ^ ETSU poll shows support for return of football program
  4. ^ Stanton Defines Plans for Return of ETSU Football
  5. ^ ETSU poll shows support for return of football program
  6. ^ http://www.bucfootball.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=242&view=next


Tennessee public universities
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
Atlantic Sun Conference
Belmont • Campbell (Campbell Fighting Camels) • ETSU • Florida Gulf Coast* • Gardner–Webb • Jacksonville
Kennesaw State • Lipscomb • Mercer • North Florida • South Carolina Upstate* • Stetson

* Future member effective 2007-2008 academic year
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