The Story of North Texas: From Texas Normal College, 1890, to the University of North Texas System, 2001

by ROGERS JAMES L.

• ISBN13: 9781574411287
• ISBN10: 1574411284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

With unlimited archival access and a journalist's attention to detail, James L. Rogers updates and expands his 1965 publication to bring the university's history into the next century.

The founder of the Texas Normal College, Joshua C. Chilton, declared in 1890 the institution's aim "to become leaders in the education of the young men and women of Texas, fitting them to creditably fill the most important positions in business and professional circles." By 1965 the eighth president, J. C. Matthews, presided over an institution granting doctorates in the sciences, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, teacher education, business administration, and the fine arts. In the last thirty-five years the institution has grown to become the University of North Texas System under the leadership of Chancellor Alfred Hurley and President Norval Pohl, with campuses in Dallas and Fort Worth. It now stands as the leading university of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. With more than eighty photos of people and events on campus, The Story of North Texas provides the definit

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	v
Foreword	vi
Chancellor Alfred F. Hurley
Acknowledgments	ix
Part I The Private Normal College 1890-1901
A City in Search of a College	2	(10)
``A Much-Praised Man in Our Midst''	12	(14)
``Our Work Shall Prove Our Worth''	26	(12)
Part II The State Normal College 1901-1923
Building the Three - Year Normal	38	(11)
Dr. Bruce's Vision	49	(9)
For the Training of Teachers	58	(8)
The Move to Four-Year Status	66	(14)
The Struggle for Money	80	(12)
``The Normal Is Sadly Cramped''	92	(14)
Life in Dr. Bruce's Normal	106	(29)
``He Has Builded a Monument''	135	(9)
Part III The State Teachers College 1923-1934
The Search for Equality	144	(8)
The Old Guard Dies Hard	152	(6)
``On With the Battle!''	158	(11)
More Students, Less Money	169	(9)
Toward a Graduate School	178	(8)
Big Saturday Night	186	(15)
Best People, Best Water	201	(7)
Part IV Teachers College in Transition 1934-1949
The Foundation Is Laid	208	(5)
Graduate Work Begins	213	(4)
The Goals Expand	217	(10)
The Campus Grows Again	227	(10)
From Depression to War	237	(18)
Postwar Boom	255	(18)
Part V Building a University for a Metroplex 1949-1968
Author's Foreword for 1998	272	(1)
A Life Devoted to North Texas	273	(30)
Growing Toward Seventy-Five	303	(32)
Free of Violence	335	(21)
Part VI Changing the Guard in Changing Times 1968-1971
A Time of Rapid Change	356	(26)
Voices of Protest	382	(19)
Carter: Act One	401	(23)
Part VII Reaching Outward in Troubled Times 1971-1982
A New Team Arrives	424	(20)
In Search of Goals	444	(14)
How Firm a Foundation?	458	(11)
New Issues for Students	469	(14)
Joining the Osteopaths	483	(13)
Expanding the University	496	(18)
Some Coalitions Crumble	514	(17)
Carter: Act Two	531	(8)
Hunkering Down-Briefly	539	(19)
Part VIII Regaining Momentum 1982-2000
Managing for Stability	558	(13)
Centennial Decade: New Outreach	571	(6)
Crisis in the Oil Patch	577	(24)
Echoes of Perot: Reform Higher Education	601	(15)
``Bring Back the Eagles''	616	(13)
Toward the Second Century	629	(9)
Part IX From 100 Years: A New University
The Legacy of a Century	638	(27)
Notes	665	(44)
Index	709