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	522
Staff	2034
Undergraduates	9,770
Postgraduates	1,886
Doctoral students	279
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, and Greeneville, Tennessee. Image File history File linksMetadata Etsulogo. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The term public school has different (and in some cases contradictory) meanings due to regional differences. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Aquatint of a Doctor in Divinity at the University of Oxford, in the scarlet and black academic robes corresponding to his position. ... Johnson City is the name of some places in the United States of America: Johnson City, New York Johnson City, Tennessee Johnson City, Texas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... Look up urban in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Johnson City is a city in Washington County, Tennessee; however a small part of the city is located within Carter County, Tennessee. ... Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area  Ranked 36th  - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²)  - Width 120 miles (195 km)  - Length 440 miles (710 km)  - % water 2. ... The Tennessee Board of Regents as currently consitituted is authorized by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly passed in 1972. ... Kingsport is a city located in Sullivan County, Tennessee. ... Nickname: The Birthplace of Country Music Motto: A Good Place To Live Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee County Sullivan Mayor Jim Messimer Area    - City 76. ... Greeneville is a town located in Greene County, 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] A normal school is an institution for training teachers. ... The mission of Southern Association for Secondary Schools and Colleges (SACS) is the improvement of education in the Southern United States through accreditation. ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...

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. Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, Brazil A medical school, or faculty of medicine, is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners, specifically medical doctors, as well as their accreditation to... The East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine is in Johnson City, Tennessee. ... James Henry Jimmy Quillen (January 11, 1916–November 2, 2003) was a Republican U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1963 to 1997. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, graduated from the school, but 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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon in an episode of The West Wing Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957, in East Lansing, Michigan), is an American actor and director best known for his Emmy-winning role as Eliot Weston on the television series thirtysomething and his recurring role as Danny Concannon... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... thirtysomething (1987 – 1991) was a ground-breaking and award-winning American evening television drama, of the type popularly labeled a soap opera when broadcast during the daytime. ...

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. // A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robby, Robbie, Robi, Bobby, Rab, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Beto, Bobadito, and Robban (in Sweden), are all short for Robert). ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The Atlantic Sun Conference is a college athletic conference which operates primarily on the east coast of the United States. ... The Southern Conference (or SoCon) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAAs Division I-AA for football and Division I for all other sports. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Memorial Center is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Johnson City, Tennessee. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ...

Points of interest

• East Tennessee State University Arboretum

The East Tennessee State University Arboretum is an arboretum located across the East Tennessee State University campus, Johnson City, Tennessee. ...

External links

• ETSU Website
• ETSU Athletics Site
• University School History; Founding of the ET Normal School
• Buccaneer Nation, an ETSU Athletics Message Board

Fraternities

• Kappa Sigma - Lambda Beta
• Pi Kappa Alpha - Epsilon Zeta
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Sigma Chi

Sororities

• Alpha Delta Pi
• Alpha Xi Delta
• Kappa Delta
• Sigma Kappa

Alpha Delta Pi (ΑΔΠ) was founded May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia making it the first female fraternal organization. ... Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ) was founded in 1893 by ten women at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, who shared a vision of an organization dedicated to the personal growth of women. ... Kappa Delta (ΚΔ) is sorority founded at the State Female Normal School, now Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. ... Sigma Kappa (ΣΚ) is a sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ History Page @ Official Site