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The school that would become Monmouth University was founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, a two-year junior college under Dean Edward G. Schlaefer. Created in New Jersey during the Great Depression, Monmouth Junior College was intended by Schlaefer to provide an opportunity for higher education to high school graduates in Monmouth County who could not afford to go away to college. [4]
The Monmouth Hawks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Monmouth University located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the upcoming 2025 season, the Hawks compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). [2]
Shadow Lawn is a historic building on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.Built in 1927 for Hubert T. Parson, president of the F.W. Woolworth Company, it is one of the last large estate houses to be built before the Great Depression.
Monmouth University history discovery: College students find original Twin Lights lighthouse — and 200-year-old taxpayer ripoff 'You might have an experience'
Western Oregon University was founded in 1856 as Monmouth University. [8] In 1865, it merged with another private institution, Bethel College , in Bethel and became Christian College . In 1882, the Oregon State Legislature approved the college's bid to become a state-supported teacher training (or " normal ") school, Oregon State Normal School .
[6] [7] According to The Star-Ledger, the law gave Rutgers "nearly all of UMDNJ—including its medical schools in Newark and Piscataway—in one of the greatest expansions in the state university's history" and southern New Jersey's Rowan University would "take over UMDNJ's osteopathic medical school in Stratford." [8]
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But first, a little history about the state’s oldest public university. The background: Western Oregon began as a private institution in 1856, three years before the city of Monmouth was ...