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Similar name changes would result in Southwest Texas State College in 1959 and Sam Houston State College in 1965. [8] West Texas State College became West Texas State University in 1963. [18] The year 1965 also saw the incorporation of Angelo State College, founded as a junior college in 1928, into the system.
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
Previously known as Texas Military Institute, TMI is a selective coeducational Episcopal college preparatory school with a military tradition in San Antonio, Texas for boarding and day students. It is the sole secondary school of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas .
A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...
The school's name has changed several times over the course of its history. The first change occurred in 1918 when Southwest Texas State Normal School became Southwest Texas State Normal College, after the Board of Regents, two years earlier, had authorized the school to begin granting degrees as a senior college.
The U.S. ran more than 400 boarding schools aimed at assimilating Native American children, and at least 973 children died at the schools.
The Groton School, t he No. 5 most elite boarding school, is tied with The Thacher School as the most selective, each with an acceptance rate of 12%. View the slideshow for the 16 most selective ...
Hopevale Union Free School District (boarding ended in 2010, merged into Randolph Academy UFSD in 2011) Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School Lewisville Female Seminary ( Chester ) - closed 1854