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Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. With enrollment of about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest university. The university is known for its extensive wireless system that covers not only the campus, but the city of Marquette and the surrounding communities and its laptop program that issues laptops to all full-time students and faculty members〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obama to promote Northern Michigan University's WiMAX system )〕 The university is the alma mater of many prominent persons: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz; the Chief Financial Officer of Kraft Foods Teri List-Stoll; and championship-winning college basketball coach Tom Izzo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Howard Schultz Biography Activist (1953–) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Teri L. List-Stoll CPA )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Coach Izzo )〕 ==History== Northern Michigan University was established in 1899 by the Michigan Legislature as Northern State Normal School with the original purpose of providing teacher preparation programs in Michigan's then-wild and sparsely populated Upper Peninsula. When it opened its doors in 1899, NMU enrolled thirty-two students who were taught by six faculty members utilizing rented rooms in Marquette city hall. The original campus-site at the corner of Presque Isle and Kaye Avenues was on land donated by local businessman and philanthropist John M. Longyear, whose namesake academic building, Longyear Hall, opened its doors to students in 1900. Throughout the school's first half-century, education and teacher training was the primary focus of the small regional school. During this time, the school built the native sandstone buildings Kaye and Peter White Halls, as well as a manual training school adjacent to the campus buildings, J.D. Pierce School. Modest increases in enrollment resulted in several name changes throughout the years: *Northern State Normal, 1899 *Northern State Teachers College, 1927 *Northern Michigan College of Education, 1942 *Northern Michigan College, 1955 In 1963, through the adoption of a new state constitution in Michigan, Northern Michigan was designated a comprehensive university serving the diverse educational needs of Upper Michigan. During this time, enrollment at the small state school swelled (due in large part to the 1957 opening of the Mackinac Bridge, linking vehicle traffic between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas); and as a result, the campus expanded rapidly, roughly to the size it remains to this day. Accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programs are offered by the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Health Sciences and Professional Studies. Graduate education was inaugurated in 1928 when courses at the master's degree level were offered in cooperation with the University of Michigan. 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「Northern Michigan University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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