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. 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 has the highest number of gays per capita in the US. This is a screenshot I took of Firefox 2. ... 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. ... An urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... A mascot, originally a fetish-like term for any person, animal, or thing supposed to bring luck, is now something—typically an animal or human character—used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team (the name often corresponds with the mascot... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... 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). ... For a list of universities around the world, see Lists of colleges and universities Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Johnson City has the highest number of gays per capita in the US. This is a screenshot I took of Firefox 2. ... 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. ... Elizabethton is the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee. ... Greeneville is a town in Greene County, Tennessee, United States. ...

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. ... For a list of universities around the world, see Lists of colleges and universities 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 begin in January 2007. The university is listed by The Princeton Review in their 2007 edition of America’s Best Value Colleges. A medical school or faculty of medicine is a tertiary educational institution or part of such an institution that teaches medicine. ... 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. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Princeton Review (TPR) is a for-profit American company that offers private instruction and tutoring for standardized achievement tests, in particular those offered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), such as the SAT, GRE, and GMAT. They also offer courses for the LSAT and MCAT, as well as many...

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. Kenneth Arnold Chesney (born March 26, 1968, in Knoxville, Tennessee), raised in Luttrell, Tennessee is an American country music singer. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 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 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... 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. ...

ETSU Student Atheltic 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 Staton 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] // 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, Robin, Bobby, Rab, Rabbie, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Beto, Bobadito, and Robban (in Sweden), are all nicknames for Robert). ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic 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. ... This is a list of schools in Division I of the United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that play football as a varsity sport and are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. 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. ... A womens 400 metre hurdles race on a typical outdoor red rubber track. ...

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 LX gender equity requirements. Dr. Staton 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] December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This is a list of schools in Division I of the United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that play football as a varsity sport and are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005. ...

Both the ETSU student body (by a referendum vote) and the Tennessee Board of Regents will need to approve Dr. Staton's proposal to increase ETSU student athletic fees for funding a new football program before competing in the 2010 season.^[4] The Tennessee Board of Regents as currently consitituted is authorized by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly passed in 1972. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Dr. Staton 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 peogram 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]

References

• Buc Football and Friends Foundation - online forum.
• ETSU poll shows support for return of football program

External links

NCAA/ETSU Football

• ETSU Website
• ETSU Athletics Site
• ETSU Football Task Force Report
• Buc Football and Friends Foundation
• Johnson's Depot: East Tennessee State Normal School
• Buccaneer Nation, an ETSU Athletics Message Board
• College Sports: Profits or Losses? NCAA press release, 1996.
• NCAA Study Shows Athletics Programs Budgets Grow At Steady Pace. NCAA press release, 2000
• "Some Colleges May Be Forced Out of NCAA's Top Division in Football." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2001
• " It Can Pay To Lose In College Football." Forbes. Matt Woolsey.

Fraternities

• Kappa Sigma - Lambda Beta
• Lambda Chi Alpha - Iota Omicron
• Pi Kappa Alpha - Epsilon Zeta
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon
• Sigma Nu - Theta Chi
• Sigma Chi
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - Lambda Sigma

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. ...

Other

• WETS 89.5 FM Public Radio

See Also

• East Tennessee State University Arboretum
• Gray Fossil Site

The East Tennessee State University Arboretum is an arboretum located across the East Tennessee State University campus, Johnson City, Tennessee. ... The Gray Fossil Site is a Miocene-epoch assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. ...

Footnotes

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