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East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is an accredited American

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located in Johnson City

Johnson City, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

Tennessee

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. It is part of the Tennessee Board of Regents

Tennessee Board of Regents

The Tennessee Board of Regents is one of the two systems of public higher education in Tennessee. The TBR was authorized by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly passed in 1972...

system of colleges and universities, the nation's sixth largest system of public education, and is the fourth largest university in the state. ETSU has off-campus centers in nearby Kingsport

Kingsport, Tennessee

Kingsport is a city located mainly in Sullivan County with some western portions in Hawkins County in the US state of Tennessee. The majority of the city lies in Sullivan County...

, Elizabethton

Elizabethton, Tennessee

Elizabethton is the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is also the historical site both of the first independent American government located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original thirteen British American colonies.Elizabethton is also the...

, and Greeneville

Greeneville, Tennessee

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, Tennessee.

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as one of America’s Best Value Colleges, ETSU has a host of programs that benefit both the region and nation, including the Quillen College of Medicine

East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine

The James H. Quillen College of Medicine is a medical school, part of East Tennessee State University located in Johnson City, Tennessee. It is one of two public medical schools in Tennessee, the other being the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health...

, consistently ranked as one of the top schools nationwide for rural medicine and primary care education, the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, the College of Nursing, and the recently formed College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. Unique programs include a nationally acclaimed and accredited program in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music, the nation's lone master's degree in Storytelling, and the Appalachian Studies programs, focused on the surrounding Appalachia

Appalachia

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n region.

ETSU had a record enrollment of over 15,000 students in Fall 2010.
In 2011 ETSU will have its 100th anniversary.

History

ETSU was founded as East Tennessee State Normal School

Normal school

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, to educate teachers; the K-12 training school, called University School, operates to this day. East Tennessee State officially became a college in 1925 when it changed its name to East Tennessee State Teachers College, subsequently gaining accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1927. In 1943, East Tennessee State Teacher's College was expanded into a college with a range of liberal arts

Liberal arts

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offerings, becoming East Tennessee State College. The college became a University

University

in 1963, adopting the name it holds today.

ETSU announced plans to open a College of Pharmacy in 2005, rapidly receiving local support to secure the approval. Full accreditation was granted in June 2010, shortly after the first class of the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy graduated.

In December 2007, the College of Public and Allied Health split into two new colleges, the College of Public Health and the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. Both are part of ETSU’s Health Sciences Division, which also includes the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, and the College of Nursing.

In late 2009, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Board of Regents authorized the formation of a Ph.D program in Sport Physiology and Performance. This program, the first of its kind in the United States, will focus on sports science and physiology in athletics. It will feature concentrations in sport physiology and sport performance, and is expected to start in 2010.

Research

The research mission of ETSU advances scholarly and creative activity that enhances the teaching and learning environment and benefits the regional, national, and global communities served. ETSU strongly supports and encourages faculty and student research. In FY09, ETSU was awarded over $40 million in research, public service, and training/instruction grants. The ETSU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration (ORSPA) organizes an annual event, the Appalachian Student Research Forum, for students to showcase their research via poster and/or oral presentations. At the April 2010 event, over 100 student poster presentations were made and over $3500 was given in prize money to udergraduate, graduate, and medical students, medical residents and postdoctoral fellows.

Athletics

ETSU collegiate athletic teams, nickname

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d Buccaneers, compete in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

Division I Atlantic Sun Conference

Atlantic Sun Conference

The Atlantic Sun Conference is a college athletic conference operating in the Southeastern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I; it does not sponsor football. The conference was established in 1978 as the Trans America Athletic Conference...

. In the 2006-07 year, ETSU won both the conference's men and women's All-Sport trophies, winning seven team titles. They repeated as the overall and men's All-Sport champions in 2007-08 with three team titles, in 2008-09 with five team titles, and in 2009-10 with three team titles. ETSU has won the Bill Bibb Trophy for the best overall Atlantic Sun athletic program all four years since it was first awarded for the 2006-07 season.

Current men's sports at ETSU are baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, golf

Golf

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, soccer, tennis

Tennis

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and track and field

Track and field

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. Women's sports are basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball

Softball

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, tennis, track and field and volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

. Men's soccer competed at the club level in the fall of 2007, before entering NCAA and Atlantic Sun competition as a scholarship program in the 2008 season. A new on-campus soccer field, Summers-Taylor Stadium, opened in fall 2007. In the 2007-08 season, the women's basketball team made their first trip to the NCAA tournament. In 2009 and 2010, both the men's and women's teams earned automatic berths to the NCAA championship by winning the Atlantic Sun Conference tournaments.

The Mini-Dome on the campus of ETSU houses the intercollegiate athletics offices, and is the venue for men's and women's basketball. Still known by students, faculty, and the community as the Mini-Dome, this campus landmark has been officially renamed from Memorial Center to the ETSU/Mountain States Health Alliance Athletic Center. The largest building on the ETSU campus, it hosts several indor track and field

Track and field

meets, and was once the home field for the university's football program. The Mini-Dome has hosted many non-athletic events that could not be housed in an indoor setting on most American college campuses, such as national indoor championships for free flight

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Basketball

The men's head coach has been Murry Bartow

Murry Bartow

Murry Bartow is an American college basketball coach and the current the head men's coach at East Tennessee State University. Prior to accepting the head coaching job at ETSU, he served as the head coach for UAB from 1996 to 2002, succeeding his father Gene Bartow, the creator of the Blazers...

since 2003, and he has led the Bucs to win the 2004 Southern Conference

Southern Conference

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championship, 2007 Atlantic Sun

Atlantic Sun Conference

title, the 2009 Atlantic Sun Tournament championship

2009 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament

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, and the 2010 Atlantic Sun Tournament championship

2010 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament

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. Bartow has led the Buccaneers to berths in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

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(2004, 2009 and 2010) three of the program's total nine times.

The women's head coach is Karen Kemp. Coach Kemp has led the Lady Bucs to three consecutive appearances in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual college basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981–82 season...

(2008 to 2010) and has averaged 20.3 wins over the 2006-2009 seasons. In addition, a large variety of all-conference accolades have been awarded to both her and her teams during her career, including two Coach of the Year awards, four Player of the Year awards, two Freshman of the Year awards, over 20 athletes with All-Conference honors, and numerous athletes with All-Academic honors. Kemp is only the second head coach at ETSU to reach the 100-win milestone and currently holds the record for most wins in the school's history at 214 and rising.

Football

The 2005 move of the Buccaneers from the Southern Conference

Southern Conference

to the Atlantic Sun was an indirect result of ETSU President Stanton's decision, following the 1999 ETSU Athletic Task Force recommendations, to drop the ETSU football program after the 2003 season, in response to budget limitations imposed by the state legislature. The football program was posting close to $1 million in financial losses each year between 1999 and 2003.

Proposed student athletic fee increase

ETSU President Stanton announced on December 22, 2006 that the ETSU administration is now supporting the return of the ETSU NCAA Division I FCS football program to the university, after accepting the recent ETSU Football Task Force report calling for increased student athletic fees to both restore the ETSU football program and additional funding for equivalent female athletic programs to meet U.S. federal Title IX gender equity requirements. Dr. Stanton has stated that ETSU will "need $4 million to $5 million" collected each year from of a combination students fees and private contributors to "get it all done."

Both the ETSU student body (by a referendum vote) and the Tennessee Board of Regents

Tennessee Board of Regents

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would have needed to approve Stanton's proposal to increase ETSU student athletic fees for funding a new football program before competing in the 2010 season.

Stanton also stated that ETSU generates approximately $500,000 of revenue from every $25 student athletic fees collected each semester at ETSU (i.e., a conservative estimate of student fees fully funding ETSU football at the $5 million dollar level would amount to an additional $250 in ETSU student athletic fees each year). During the last year of the football program in 2003, ETSU was only able to raise $127,000 (of the minimum $1.5 million needed) in private contributions toward the operating costs that will associated with the ETSU football program (excluding approximately $15 million dollars for a new 10,000 seat stadium).

On April 10–11, 2007 the football referendum failed by a vote of 59%-41%, with about 3,500 students voting. Stanton released a statement following the vote, saying the issue of football was dead for the immediate future.

Greek life

There are several Greek organizations offered at East Tennessee State University. Greek life provides occasions for social interaction and intramural participation between young men and women. The Interfraternity Council offers young men eight fraternities: Kappa Sigma

Kappa Sigma

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, Sigma Chi

Sigma Chi

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, Lambda Chi Alpha

Lambda Chi Alpha

Lambda Chi Alpha is one of the largest men's secret general fraternities in North America, having initiated more than 280,000 members and held chapters at more than 300 universities. It is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference and was founded by Warren A. Cole, while he was a...

, Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South...

, Sigma Phi Epsilon

Sigma Phi Epsilon

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, and Pi Kappa Alpha

Pi Kappa Alpha

Pi Kappa Alpha is a Greek social fraternity with over 230 chapters and colonies and over 250,000 lifetime initiates in the United States and Canada.-History:...

. The Pan-Hellenic Council offers young women four sororities: Alpha Delta Pi

Alpha Delta Pi

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, Alpha Xi Delta

Alpha Xi Delta

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, Kappa Delta

Kappa Delta

Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the university...

, and Sigma Kappa

Sigma Kappa

Sigma Kappa is a sorority founded in 1874 at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Sigma Kappa was founded by five women: Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Mabel Fuller Pierce, Frances Elliott Mann Hall and Louise Helen Coburn...

. The National Pan-Hellenic Council offers four fraternities and sororities: Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the "Seven Jewels". Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations ...

, Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University...

, Omega Psi Phi

Omega Psi Phi

Omega Psi Phi is a fraternity and is the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos...

and Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...

. The Multicultural Greek Council offers one fraternity: Sigma Beta Rho.

Campus life

In April 2002, the 100000 square feet (9,290.3 m²) Basler Center for Physical Activity was opened The building contains recreational facilities such as an indoor 40 feet (12.2 m) climbing wall, raquetball and basketball courts, an indoor swimming pool, and a 15000 square feet (1,393.5 m²) weight room. The Basler center also offers a diverse selection of fitness classes from yoga to martial arts.

Academic and administrative facilities

D.P. Culp University Center
Charles C. Sherrod Library
Wayne G. Basler Center for Physical Activity (CPA)
Burgin E. Dossett Hall (Administration/School of Graduate Studies)
Alexander Hall (University High School)
D.M. Brown Hall (Sciences)
Gilbreath Hall (College of Arts and Sciences/Math/Foreign Language/Bud Frank Theatre)
ETSU/Mountain States Health Alliance Athletic Center (Mini-Dome)
Burleson Hall (English)
Mathes Hall (Music)
Ernest C. Ball Hall (Fine Arts)
Memorial Hall (Brooks Gym)
Sam Wilson Hall (College of Business & Technology)
Campus Center Building (Theatre/Women's Studies)
John P. Lamb, Jr. Hall (Health Sciences/College of Public Health)
Hutcheson Hall (Family/Consumer Sciences)
Wilson-Wallis Hall (Technology)
Warf-Pickel Hall (Education/Communications)
Hillrise Hall (Social Work)
Yoakley Hall (International Programs/Honors College)
Ross Hall
Roy S. Nicks Hall (College of Nursing/Computer Science)
Reece Museum
Rogers-Stout Hall (Social Sciences)
Scott M. Niswonger Digital Media Center

Residence halls

Carter Hall (Women, 1911)
Stone Hall (Co-ed, 1952)
Powell Hall (Men, 1961)
West Hall (Women, 1963)
Dossett Hall (Men, 1966)
Lucille Clement Hall (Co-ed, 1967)
Luntsford Apartments (Women, 1971)
Davis Apartments (Co-ed, 1972)
Buccaneer Ridge Apartments (Co-ed, 1998 (Phase I), 2004 (Phase II), 2010 (Phase III))
Buccaneer Village Apartments
Governors Hall (Co-ed, 2007)
Centennial Hall (Co-ed, 2009)

Colleges and schools

College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business and Technology
College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences
College of Education
College of Medicine
College of Nursing
College of Pharmacy
College of Public Health
Honors College
School of Continuing Studies
School of Graduate Studies

Honors College

The Honors College at East Tennessee State University provides numerous opportunities and benefits to students, including:

The University Honors Scholars Program offers incoming freshmen a specially designed curriculum in general education taught by exceptional faculty. This four-year program provides full scholarship support and the atmosphere of a small liberal arts college within the larger university community.
Numerous Honors-in-Discipline Programs are offered in a variety of degree programs at ETSU. These programs are designed to provide students specially designed, in-depth, and hands-on experiences in a chosen area of study. Students may apply as a freshman or later in their career at ETSU.
The Midway Honors Scholars Program recognizes exceptional students who wish to transfer to ETSU. The program looks for students that have excelled at a different university or have graduated from a Tennessee Community College and wish to pursue an enriched honors opportunity at ETSU. Application is required before the first semester begins at ETSU.
The Fine & Performing Arts Scholars Program is a unique interdisciplinary program designed to acknowledge and reward students who excel in the arts and wish to work closely with exceptional faculty artists in a variety of areas. The program involves sharing your artistic endeavors and part of your coursework with students in your class. Through a unique Roving Artist's program, scholars are challenged to assist in projects across the university campus and region. Special application is required.
Numerous special Honors opportunities, including studying abroad, exchange programs, or undergraduate research.
Out-of-state scholarships and limited in-state tuition scholarships are available to students in the above programs.

Presidents

Sidney G. Gilbreath, 1911–1925
Charles C. Sherrod, 1925–1949
Burgin E. Dossett, Sr., 1949–1968
D.P. Culp, 1968–1977
Arthur H. DeRosier, Jr., 1977–1980
Ronald E. Beller, 1980–1991
Bert C. Bach (interim), 1991–1992
Roy S. Nicks, 1992–1996
Paul E. Stanton, Jr., 1997 to present (On March 30, 2011, President Stanton announced he would retire effective January 14, 2012.)

Alumni

Recording star Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney

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, four-time Country Music Association

Country Music Association

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Entertainer of the Year

Country Music Association Awards

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, holds a degree in advertising. Another notable ETSU attendee is Timothy Busfield

Timothy Busfield

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, known for his Emmy Award-winning role on the popular 1980s TV series thirtysomething. Busfield attended ETSU for a short while, but did not graduate. He starred in a series of advertisements for the school in the late 1980s. Ron Ramsey

Ron Ramsey

Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey is the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee and Speaker of the State Senate. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S...

, the current Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee, graduated from ETSU in 1978 majoring in Industrial Technology. Ronald E. Carrier

Ronald E. Carrier

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, a 1955 graduate of ETSU, was the fourth President of James Madison University

James Madison University

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, serving from 1971 to 1998. Mike Smith, current Atlanta Falcons

Atlanta Falcons

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head coach, also attended ETSU. R. Alan King

R. Alan King

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, awarded two Bronze Stars

Bronze Star Medal

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and author of Twice Armed: An American Soldiers Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq, graduated from ETSU in 1987. Besse Cooper

Besse Cooper

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, the oldest person in the world , graduated from East Tennessee Normal School in 1916.

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History

Research

Athletics

Basketball

Football

Proposed student athletic fee increase

Greek life

Campus life

Academic and administrative facilities

Residence halls

Colleges and schools

Honors College

Presidents

Alumni

See also

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