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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh WI183 |
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Opening its doors in 1871, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was then the third normal school founded by the state. Pioneering in curricular innovations, the school also established the first kindergarten at an American public normal school in 1880, and it initiated summer study in Wisconsin's teacher training system in 1893. Advancing in status, the institution attained degree-granting privileges effective in 1926 and merged with the University of Wisconsin system in its centennial year. As a school in transition, the university has enlarged upon its historic function of teacher education with broad offerings in letters and science, graduate study, business administration, nursing, and continuing education. At the threshold of its second century of service in 1972, the university continues to prepare students for the work which George S. Albee, its first president, defined as dedicated to "lifting humanity to a higher, noble life."
Erected 1971
UW-Oshkosh campus, Oshkosh. Winnebago County.
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