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Texas A&M University–Commerce is a public research university located in Commerce, Texas. With an enrollment of over 12,000 students as of the Fall of 2015, the university is the second largest institution in the Texas A&M University System. Founded in 1889, the institution remains as the fifth longest continuous operating university in Texas. Located within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, approximately 60 miles from downtown Dallas, the university attracts traditional resident students, from the Metroplex as well as from the smaller communities of northeast Texas. In addition, to the main campus in Hunt County, the university also has satellite campuses in downtown Dallas, Rockwall and Mesquite. Many courses are also offered at Collin College in McKinney and Navarro College in Corsicana. ==History== The university began as the East Texas Normal College in 1889 when founder William Leonidas Mayo opened the doors to a one-building campus in Cooper, Texas, roughly 16 miles northeast of Commerce. After a fire destroyed the original campus in 1894, Mayo moved the college to its present location in Commerce, Texas, due to the presence of a railroad to commute students from Dallas and areas from both North and East Texas. The state of Texas purchased the campus from Mayo in 1917. Shortly after the purchase of the school, Mayo died suddenly and the school was named East Texas State Teachers College. The name was chosen by the state of Texas due to the state already having schools named for the north, south and west geographic areas of the state and Commerce was the city easternmost of the four. As a result, Commerce received the name for the East Texas school, despite being geographically located in rural North Texas.〔 In 1957, the Texas Legislature, recognizing that the purpose of the institution had broadened from teacher education, changed the name of the college to East Texas State College. Following the inauguration of the first doctoral program in 1962, the name was changed to East Texas State University. ETSU opened branch locations in Mesquite, Dallas and Texarkana. In 1996, the university joined the Texas A&M University System, in the process of renaming the school, the names East Texas A&M (to honor the heritage of the school's name and new affiliation with the A&M System), and Northeast Texas A&M (considered to make the name more geographically correct) were all considered, but the university system decided to honor the affinity of the town and the school and it became Texas A&M University–Commerce. The Texarkana branch of A&M-Commerce separated from the Commerce college, and it became Texas A&M University–Texarkana, a separately administered and funded university.〔 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「Texas A&M University–Commerce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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