Stephen F. Austin University really should be renamed. Call it University of Nagadoches or something.
@LBad96 that is too funny! I can see where someone not from Texas would think that! The school is named after Stephen F. Austin, the founder of Texas.
Just showing that you can learn something new here. I go to school in the area, and always thought that Chestnut Hill was simply a part of Newton.
I thought of another one that might confuse non-Texans (and maybe some Texans too). There is the University of Texas at Dallas which is actually in Richardson, Texas and the University of Dallas which is actually in Irving, Texas. The first is a public school, the second is a private catholic school. They are both in suburbs of Dallas. At least Dallas Baptist University is in Dallas, Texas.
Seton Hill University in PA and Seton Hall University in NJ.
^^^Both are Catholic colleges.
Plus Seattle Pacific University, Alaska Pacific University, Pacific Lutheran University, and probably others.
(Edited to add yet another!)
I always thought it was funny how Cornell College in Iowa is older than Ivy League Cornell University in Ithica.
The Iowa Cornell should sue the Ivy Cornell fro brand infringement!
From what I remember a couple of cousins started each of the colleges. Since they’re named after their founders who were related…
For dominance purposes: Wilmington University in Delaware and Wilmington College in Ohio. Find a new dang name, please. Or at least change it to “Wilmington University Delaware” and “Wilmington College Ohio”. Your obscurity greatly bothers me.
I think Slippery Rock University is a fantastic name! It always makes me think of beautiful Slide Rock State Park (which admittedly is in Arizona, so it’s not really like anyone would think it’s close) and I can’t help imagining that the students must have so much fun if it’s warm…just google the images!
Slippery Rock used to be called Slippery Rock State Teachers College. I found the name amusing, and sent away for an application (back in the day) just to freak out my dad a bit. It worked.
There’s something called Life University. It’s on the list of colleges with openings for 2016. (Got their name from FB?)
Also on that list: Paul Smith’s College. Apparently it has openings for more people than Paul Smith.
Princeton University was once called College of New Jersey. Now there is a different College of New Jersey.
Life U used to be Life college. Mostly a chiropractic school. Lost its accreditation a few years ago- finally got it back.
Interesting story about Paul Smith’s: Recently, Joan Weill, wife of billionaire Sanford Weill, offered to give the school $20 million if the school changed its name to Joan Weill Paul Smith’s college. Alumni fought this and won.
According to an article on the history of Monmouth University, administrators and the board of trustees were looking at new names when it developed from a junior college to a four-year school. At the time, people knew there already was a Monmouth College in Illinois and the article goes into detail about how the Illinois Monmouth was using that name for over a hundred years before the New Jersey Monmouth became a four-year school.
The article does not explain why the administrators and trustees chose to keep the Monmouth name. It says people wanted a name that captured public imagination in the area and elsewhere, could be easily remembered, and be expressive of the kind of college they wanted Monmouth to be, but does not give a reason for why the Monmouth name remained at the school. If anything, using the name of existing college goes against what the people wanted because it creates confusion and mix-ups with the other college. In the end, I guess the administrators and trustees were just apathetic about getting a new name.
It’s also interesting that people wanted a name that was expressive of the kind of college they wanted Monmouth to be, when it’s named after a county, and like I said in an earlier post, it’s usually community colleges that are named after counties. In New Jersey, the only community colleges that aren’t named after counties are Raritan Valley and Brookdale, the former because it serves two counties and the latter because of you-know-who. Because of this, the name “Monmouth” is expressive of it being a community college, which I don’t think the people wanted it to be. To be fair, Monmouth became a four-year school when the only community college that existed in New Jersey was Union Junior College, so the name might not have had the same stigma at the time. But now that there’s 17 community colleges in New Jersey that have counties in their names, the name Monmouth doesn’t give off a great vibe for what’s supposed to be a four-year school.
All of the PASSHE schools are named after the city they’re in. Hence IUP which is in Indiana PA, and CALU which is in California PA.
Also a lot of PA schools are named after counties Juniata, Lycoming, Susquehanna, Lehigh.
Penn State branches have the name of the city, so why not Pitt branches?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Muhlenberg. “Mühle” is the German word for “mill”.
Those were my high school colors, but we were named “The Boilermakers”. Not sure how the colors relate! @MaineLonghorn