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Truman State University is a public liberal arts and sciences university located in Kirksville, Missouri, United States. It is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Truman had 5,990 enrolled students in the Fall 2015, with 5,700 undergraduate and 290 postgraduate students,〔 pursuing degrees in 48 undergraduate, and nine Graduate programs.〔 Located in Kirksville, in the northeastern portion of Missouri, the University is named after President Harry Truman, the only president born in Missouri. Until 1996, the school was known as Northeast Missouri State University, but the Board of Trustees voted to change the school's name to better reflect its statewide mission. In the 2014 U.S. News & World Report College Rankings, Truman placed tenth in the Midwest among regional universities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Truman State University )〕 Truman is the only public institution in Missouri that is officially designated to pursue highly selective admissions standards.〔() 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Truman State University )〕 == History == Truman State University was founded in 1867 by Joseph Baldwin as the North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College. Baldwin was a pioneer in education, and his school quickly gained official recognition in 1870 by the Missouri General Assembly, which designated it as the first public teaching college in Missouri.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historical Timeline )〕 Twenty-five Missouri counties were designated as the school's college district, including Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Clark, Howard, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, St. Charles, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, Sullivan and Warren. Purple and white were adopted as the school's official colors after Basil Brewer wrote a school song, "The Purple and the White." They have remained the school colors since.〔 In 1924 a fire destroyed old Baldwin Hall and the library. The lake that once filled the current quadrangle, or "Quad," (a prominent feature in pre-1924 photographs) was pumped dry in a futile attempt to put out the fire.〔 The Quad now serves as a popular gathering place where students study, play games, hold events and meet with one another. The college was renamed Northeast Missouri State University in 1972, and, in 1983, the university was awarded the G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Northeast Missouri State continued pushing for excellence. On June 20, 1985, Governor John Ashcroft signed a bill that designated the university as Missouri's only statewide public liberal arts and sciences university. This changed the school's mission to a statewide rather than a regional (northeast) objective. As such, nearly 100 programs were dropped in the span of six years, including all two-year programs that did not fulfill the liberal arts mission.〔 The school continued to win praise from such publications as US News and World Report and the university's reputation continued to spread. By the 1990s, the university was no longer solely a teachers' college, but also had a nationally-known accounting division and schools of science, mathematics, computer science and literature. Ten years after Governor Ashcroft's designation, Governor Mel Carnahan signed legislation renaming the school Truman State University. Truman State University is designated by statute as Missouri's premier public liberal arts and sciences institution.〔 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「Truman State University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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