When was sjsu established

Minns, the institution was formally established as the first California State Normal School by the State Legislature in A decade later, the Legislature voted to move the Normal School to San Jose, and the school relocated to its new home on Washington Square prior to the fall term of Completed in , the building was commonly referred to as the Second State Normal School. After several names and curriculum changes, Minns' Normal School is now San Jose State University, offering more than bachelor's and master's degrees with concentrations, and is recognized as one of the top public universities granting such degrees in the West.

This collection consists of various types of records: accounting and financial files and ledgers, attendance and achievement records, board meeting minutes, commencement records, diplomas, enrollment statistics, graduate lists, student placements filed in cards and ledgers, teachers' class journals, and trustee information, as well as general records pertaining to the daily operation of the school.

Also included are a large number of records created by students of the San Jose State Normal School, such as alumni publications, Alpha Phi Omega meeting minutes, class diaries, photo albums, scrapbooks, and sketches. In addition, the collection contains a small number of realia in the form of banners, flags, and the dress of a Normal School graduate.

Included are accounting books in English and Spanish, bills issued for building maintenance labor, correspondence regarding financial matters, payroll records for special appropriations, and numerous ledgers and files documenting incidental funds transactions, invoices paid, and maintenance completed. Also included are handwritten minutes of the Normal School Board of Trustees, records pertaining to the daily operations of the school, trustee information, and statistical reports prepared for the Bureau of Education.

Of special interest in this series are documents, newspaper clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and petitions filed by interested parties from Chico, Colusa, Red Bluff, and Redding in an effort to convince the selection committee of the Board of Trustees for the State Normal School that their city should be chosen as the place to establish the first branch of the State Normal School on the West Coast.

Legal Documents Series II: Series Scope and Content Summary This series is comprised of legal documents, including architectural contracts, insurance contracts, and land deeds. Also included is a historically significant document written by the architects who surveyed and summed up the damages the San Jose State Normal School building suffered during the earthquake.

Included are attendance and achievement records, commencement records, course catalogs, diplomas, enrollment statistics, faculty meeting minutes, grade books, graduate lists, and official entrance exams for a variety of subjects, teacher training manuals, and student placement records.

Of special interest in this series are student contracts, which detail the commitment to teach in the public school environment for a set amount of time after graduation from San Jose State Normal School. These contracts allowed students to attend and graduate from San Jose Normal School without the payment of tuition fees. Also included are two ledgers containing promises made by students to report in writing to the President of the State Normal School twice a year for three years after graduation, and once a year thereafter while working in the teaching profession to uphold the San Jose State Normal School's high standards and ensure the continuation of the graduate time line.

Included are Alpha Phi Omega meeting minutes, photo albums, scrapbooks, sketches, teachers' daily class journals and class diaries, as well as the meeting minutes, journals, and record books created by various student societies. Of special interest in this series are several volumes of Memory's Lane journals composed by students, which provide first-hand accounts of the San Francisco earthquake and its impact on the San Jose State Normal School campus. Also noteworthy is a student petition directed at the Board of Trustees circa , requesting them to rescind a policy that suspended Bible readings on campus.

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Well-known people who attended SJSU. Note: The first school building at Washington Square was first occupied in and completed in The study of accounting at the Normal School pdf. How one became a Normalite pdf. October and pdf.