Central Connecticut State University

Connecticut

Connecticut's oldest public university was shut down by the state legislature after eighteen years, and stayed closed for two.

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Connecticut's oldest public university spent two years switched off by the same legislature that paid for it. It opened in eighteen forty-nine as the State Normal School, built to train teachers. Only five other normal schools existed in the country at the time. It ran for eighteen years. Then in eighteen sixty-seven, opposition inside the Connecticut General Assembly closed it down. Two years passed before the school reopened and went back to producing teachers. It kept at that until the nineteen thirties, when the Assembly created the Teachers College of Connecticut and the first bachelor's degrees were handed out. The campus had already moved to Stanley Street in New Britain in nineteen twenty-two. The name changed again in fifty-nine, and once more in eighty-three, when it finally became Central Connecticut State University. Today about nine thousand students attend, and ninety-six percent of them come from Connecticut. The teams are called the Blue Devils.

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It ran until 1867 when the school was temporarily closed due to opposition in the Connecticut General Assembly.

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