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Frostburg State University (often referred to as FSU) is a public student-centered teaching and learning institution located on a 260-acre (1.1 km2) campus in Frostburg, Maryland. The University is the only four-year institution of the University System of Maryland west of the Baltimore-Washington passageway, positioned in the state's Appalachian highlands, an area rich in its mining and educational heritage. Founded in 1898 by Maryland Governor Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Frostburg was selected because the site offered the best suitable location without a cost to the state. Today, the institution is a largely residential university, offering a wide assortment of distinctive programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. With a fall 2015 enrollment of 5,756 students, the University offers 44 different undergraduate majors, 17 graduate programs and a doctorate in educational leadership. The institution draws its students from all counties in Maryland, from other states and countries, promoting diversity among its students, faculty, and staff through incorporating its Cultural Diversity Program strategies that focus on the effective enrollment. Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the University places primary emphasis on its role as a teaching and learning institution. Faculty and professional staff engage in a wide range of scholarly activities and professional involvement, with the ultimate goal of enhancing student learning. Major areas of concentration are offered in education, business, science and technology, the creative and performing arts, and selected programs in the humanities and social sciences. The University officially became a charter member of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), A commitment that provides a framework and support network for American colleges and universities to eventually go climate neutral. ==History== What was ''Frostburg State Normal School No. 2'' was founded by an act of the Maryland General Assembly, House Bill 742, from the General Appropriation Bill, on March 31, 1898. The bill was offered on the floor by John Leake of Vale Summit in Allegany County: The State Board of Education selected and the town of Frostburg paid for the two acre Beall Park〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.frostburg.edu/about/history/ )〕 as the location of the new school on August 9, 1898. The cornerstone was laid in a ceremony on September 4, 1899.The Normal School's first building, Old Main, was positioned in Beall Park to face Loo Street (now known as College Avenue) and to look down Wood Street toward the downtown area of Frostburg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whilbr.org/itemdetail.aspx?idEntry=3405 )〕 ''State Normal School No. 2'', the first institution being located in Baltimore and then Towson, opened with its first class on September 15, 1902 with 57 students with Frostburg's first administrator, Principal Dr. Edward D. Murdaugh (18 November 1853 - May 1925).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rsu.edu/news/2010/061710_commencement100yearsago.asp )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I13810&tree=Pitard )〕 In 1904, 8 students became the first graduates of the college, receiving a diploma and a lifetime teaching certificate.〔〔()〕 In 1912, a new gymnasium was authorized and completed in 1914.〔 In 1919, a dormitory was opened.〔 In 1925, a second dormitory was opened.〔 In 1927, Allegany Hall, a new auditorium, gymnasium, and heating plant was added.〔 In 1930, a six room practice elementary school known as the new laboratory school〔 was opened and the campus was extended to 40 acres taking over the Brownsville area of Frostburg.〔 The institution's original mission was to train teachers for public school systems statewide. In 1935 the school was renamed ''State Teachers' College at Frostburg'' (also called ''Frostburg State Teachers College)'' and began offering a four-year degree program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, after expanding the curriculum from two to three years in 1931 and 1934, respectively. Lillian Cleveland Compton served as the first female president of the College from 1945 to 1954.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Western Maryland Regional Library )〕 Compton replaced the 21-year President John L. Dunkle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/25univ/frost/former/html/frosp.html )〕 Her mission as President was essentially to prepare the College for its planned closing. Enrollment stood at a mere sixty-two students in 1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/compton.html )〕 With outdated facilities and inadequate funding, the College was accredited only by the State Department of Education. As early as 1943, there had arisen in the General Assembly a movement to close the institution, which would eventually culminate in the ''Marbury Report''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/compton.html )〕 In 1947, the American Council on Education suggested that Frostburg State Teachers College be closed. The report states: ''Your Commission does feel obligated to recommend the prompt discontinuance of the State Teachers College at Frostburg. We are convinced that the cost of operating this unit is not justified by the very small number of its graduates who are entering the school system of the state as teachers. In reaching this conclusion, we have been strongly influenced by the report of our survey staff as to the present condition of the physical facilities at Frostburg. It is apparent that the state faces a heavy capital expenditure if operations at that location are to be continued. Frankly, such an outlay seems to us to be an indefensible waste of public money....The facilities in Towson are adequate to care for all the students at Frostburg who are now studying to become teachers.'' The end of World War II brought a drastic change in the College's environment. In 1946, enrollment increased to 274 students, many being admitted under the new G.I. Bill. Though the movement to close the College persisted, it seemed misguided to those on the scene and was roundly opposed by both private citizens and civic groups in Frostburg and Western Maryland. With the strong support of State Superintendent of Schools Thomas Granville Pullen, Jr. and Governor William Preston Lane Jr., the General Assembly was petitioned to keep the School open and the Marbury Commission's recommendations died without ever being acted upon.〔 Under Compton's leadership, the institution celebrated its 50th anniversary in the 1949-1950 academic year, enrollment grew from 62 students in 1945 to 500 in 1954, the faculty increased from 13 to 34 members, and the size of the campus increased from eight to 40 acres of land. In addition to plant expansion, she initiated programs in curriculum development, adding a program to train junior high school teachers.〔 R. Bowen Hardesty replaced Compton as President in 1955.〔 The continued southern expansion of the College saw Brownsville Schools and homes along Park Avenue demolished by 1955 to make way for Compton, Allen, and Simpson Halls. A new school-also known as the Lincoln School, and the current home of the University's Public Safety office-was constructed in the late 1950s. However, the building was used for only two years until national integration laws reassigned students to other Frostburg elementary schools.〔 Marking a shift in the educational mission of the institution, the College was granted the right to grant Bachelor of Arts degrees and the Master of Education degree in 1960.〔 The school was again renamed in July 1963, this time as ''Frostburg State College''. Frostburg received university status in July 1987, thus being renamed to what it is today, i.e. ''Frostburg State University.'' 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Frostburg State University )〕 Continuing the shift and growth of the University, the institution opened a campus in Hagerstown in 1988, which became the University System of Maryland at Hagerstown in January 2005, and offered its first doctorate degree in 2012.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frostburg State University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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