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The McDowell Business Administration Building, built during the presidency of D. Whitney Halladay. The history of East Texas State University (ETSU) comprises the history of the university now known as East Texas A&M University from its renaming as East Texas State University in 1965 (after the establishment of its first doctoral program) to its admission into the Texas A&M University System ...
James G. Gee Library in 2016 Sororities' & Women's Halls, with Kappa Delta in the foreground, in 2016. What is now Texas A&M University–Commerce was renamed East Texas State College (ETSC) in 1957, [1] [2] [3] after the Texas Legislature recognized the broadening scope of the institution, [2] in recognition of the school's expansion beyond its original mandate of teacher education.
The history of East Texas A&M University began in 1889 when William Leonidas Mayo founded a private teachers' college named East Texas Normal College in Cooper, Texas. After the original campus was destroyed in a fire in July 1894, the college relocated to Commerce .
Professor Mayo's College: A History of East Texas State University. Commerce, Texas: East Texas State University Press. ISBN 0963709208. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04; Sawyer, William E. (1979). History of East Texas State University. Wolfe City, Texas: Henington Publishing Company.
The institution was renamed East Texas State College in 1957, after the Texas Legislature recognized its broadening scope beyond teacher education. [ 12 ] [ 8 ] [ 14 ] [ 11 ] Following the inauguration of the institution's first doctoral program in 1962, [ 12 ] [ 8 ] its name was changed to East Texas State University (ETSU) in 1965.
Named after the college's former president, the Dennis P. Gallon campus started with a focus on innovative technology and health science programs. The college then offered its first fully online ...
A panorama of the East Texas State Normal College campus in 1921. The history of East Texas State Normal College (ETSNC) comprises the history of the university now known as East Texas A&M University from when it was acquired by the State of Texas in 1917, to when it was renamed East Texas State Teachers College in 1923.
The College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts offers degree programs for most liberal-arts programs offered at East Texas A&M. Degrees and courses of study offered in this college include liberal arts, history, performing arts, music and music education, literature and language, mass media and communications, theatre, political science ...