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On April 16, 2004, the board of trustees voted to change the name of the institution from Troy State University to Troy University. The transition to the new name was completed in August 2005 and was the fourth in the school's history. When created by the Alabama Legislature on February 26, 1887, it was officially named the Troy State Normal ...
A historical sketch of the State Normal School at Albany, N.Y. and a history of its graduates for forty years. Albany, NY: Brandow & Barton. 1884. A history of the State normal school of Kansas, for the first twenty-five years. Emporia, KS. 1889. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1911).
Troy Academy was a school of higher education in Davis County, Iowa. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was founded in 1853 as a "seminary of learning" and operated through the Des Moines Presbytery and then independently. [1] [2] It was the first "normal school" teaching teachers in the newly created state of Iowa. [3]
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"County Normal" above an entrance to the normal school in Viroqua, Wisconsin An entrance gate at Beijing Normal University, an example of a comprehensive research university established as a normal school. A normal school or normal college is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.
The school, which was to be known as Troy Normal School, was eventually constructed and completed in 1887 in downtown Troy on a four-acre campus. This school, which went on to become Troy University, had a stormy early history and was lucky to have survived in its cramped downtown location.
In 1887, a group of local educators and prominent citizens of Troy joined to acquire a state normal school (teacher training school) for Troy. Thanks mostly to the efforts of Ariosto A. Wiley, a powerful state senator who was born in Troy, Troy won the education prize over Lowndesboro, Alabama, which had also wanted the school. The school was ...