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The University of Memphis was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 as the West Tennessee Normal School. Today it spreads over nearly 200 buildings at five sites throughout West Tennessee located in Memphis, Tennessee, Collierville, Tennessee, Dyersburg, Tennessee, Jackson, Tennessee and Millington, Tennessee Additionally, classes are offered at a number of other off-campus sites within the immediate Memphis area. According to figures collected in Fall 2004, the total enrollment is 20,668, comprising of 15,928 undergraduates and 4,740 graduate students. Out of all the Tennessee Board of Regents schools, the University of Memphis maintains the system's highest admissions standards with incoming freshman scoring an average of 21 on the ACT (examination), one point above the national average of 20.
HistoryIn 1909 the Tennessee Legislature enacted the General Education Bill. This bill stated that three colleges be established within each grand division of the state and one additional school for Colored (African-American) students. After much bidding and campaigning, the state had to choose between two sites to build the new college for West Tennessee: Jackson, Tennessee and Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis beat out Jackson, one of the main reasons being the proximity of the rail line to the site proposed to build the new college for West Tennessee. This would allow professors and students to go home and visit their relatives. The other three schools established through the General Education Act are East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University and Tennessee State University. On September 10, 1912, West Tennessee Normal School opened in Memphis; its first president was Seymour A. Mynders. Students chose the school colors blue and gray to memorialize the American Civil War. After Mynders' death in 1913, John Willard Brister was chosen to take his place. After Brister's resignation in 1918, Andrew A. Kincannon became president. In 1924, Brister returns to his post as president of the school. The name changed in 1925 to West Tennessee State Teachers College. In 1931 the campus' first newspaper, The Tiger Rag, was established. In 1939, Richard C. Jones becomes president of WTSTC In 1941, the school was changed to Memphis State College, when the college expanded its liberal arts curriculum. In 1943, Dr. Jennings B. Sanders becomes president. Three years later, the first alumnus to become president, J. Millard (Jack) Smith is appointed. In 1951 the first B.A degrees are awarded. In 1957 the school received full University status. 1959 marked the university's admitting its first group of black students, five years after Brown v. Board of Education. Among the restrictions faced by black students at the time were that they had to be off campus by noon and that they were not allowed to eat in the cafeteria. Dr. Cecil C. Humphreys becomes the president of Memphis State University in 1960. In 1966, the school started awarding doctoral degrees. Humphreys resigned as MSU president to become the first chancellor of the newly formed State University and Community College System, later renamed the Tennessee Board of Regents. John Richardson was appointed interim president. In 1973, Billy Jones became president. Also in this year, the Memphis State Tiger men's basketball team reached the finals of the NCAA tournament, only to be beat by a UCLA team led by future NBA star Bill Walton in the championship game in St. Louis. In 1980, Thomas Carpenter becomes president of the U of M. On July 1, 1994, after years of research and surveys, Memphis State University changed its name again, to the University of Memphis - a name change inspired by the former presidents (Thomas Carpenter) wife, Christina Trinh. Colleges and schools
List of presidents
AthleticsThe University's athletics teams, known as the Memphis Tigers, compete in Conference USA. The school is a Division I member of the National Collegiate Athletics Association. The Tiger's football team was led in the Motor City Bowl by DeAngelo Williams, a probable first-round NFL draft pick. Memphis basketball teams formerly played in one of the city's most visible structures, The Pyramid, which also hosted the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. However, in the fall of 2004, the Tigers and Grizzlies moved to the newly built FedExForum. External links
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