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Lowell State College
Lowell State College was a public college in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1959 and is the precursor to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The founding of this new state school was the culmination of decades of institutional growth that began in 1894 with the establishment of Lowell Normal School (a two-year training college for teachers), continued through the transition to the four-year Lowell Teachers College in 1932, and concluded in 1959 with the founding of Lowell State College. From 1959 to 1975, Lowell State College served the region's need for comprehensive public higher education. It was not superseded in this role until the merging of Lowell State College and Lowell Technological Institute into one new organization—University of Lowell and then the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1991. The Lowell State College campus continues to serve as the core of what is now known as the University of Massachusetts Lowell's South Campus. The final enrollment at Lowell State College was 2,353 students with 1,877 of them undergraduates and 476 of them being postgraduates.
Lowell State College and its predecessor organizations—Lowell Normal School and Lowell Teachers College—together served as important economic, political, and cultural drivers to the region through the development of teachers to serve in schools in the region and the opportunities offered for further education in diverse fields as the school expanded. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of the country's early sites of industrial manufacturing, the city was the home of diverse and rapid immigration as new waves of new people sought jobs in the mills. Spanning the period from 1894 to 1960, Lowell State College (and its earlier iterations) were one of the major institutions in this regional city in northeastern Massachusetts.
The Lowell Normal School was chartered in 1894 as a teacher training institution. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of the new manufacturing towns springing up in America that had been carved out of several, earlier Colonial villages (Dracut, Chelmsford, Tyngsboro, Tewksbury), which were themselves sitting on land once the province of the indigenous peoples of the area. As a new and growing town, Lowell had established a reputation for educational innovation with the creation of the "first co-educational and racially integrated High School in the country (1831)."
Securing the right to establish the state school in Lowell required backing from the State Board of Education and the legislature of the Commonwealth. Normal schools already existed in Westfield, Bridgewater, Worcester, and Framingham, Massachusetts when the legislature began to consider the need for the development of more. The Lowell School Committee and the city council lobbied hard for the Normal School, eventually beating out the town of Lawrence for the honor. Along with Lowell, normal schools were created in Barnstable, Fitchburg, and North Adams.
Lowell Normal School opened in 1897 with 108 students—3 men joined the first class of 105 female students—and five faculty members. The two-year program prepared teachers to work in grades 1-9. Required classes included "educational methods and psychology and how to teach various subjects to children including English, mathematics, science, and drawing."
The original classroom building opened the next year at the corner of Broadway and Wilder streets and quickly became a landmark in the city. Designed by local firm Stickney & Austin, it reflects the fashion of the time: high-style Beaux Arts with classical symmetry, arches, cast-iron lampposts and yellow brick. Its design was influenced in part by Lowell High School, which was also designed by Lowell native Frederick W. Stickney. Frank Coburn, for whom the hall was later named, served as the school's first principal until 1908.
The main mission of the school at that time was to prepare students for the teaching of elementary education. Courses typically took two years, with the third and fourth years optional because of space in the building. In 1910, the mission of the school expanded with the creation of a three-year music program.
As the mission of the school was to train the students, they needed space so that the students would be able to practice their skills. The nearby Bartlett Training School was first used when 27 rooms were made available.
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Lowell State College
Lowell State College was a public college in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1959 and is the precursor to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The founding of this new state school was the culmination of decades of institutional growth that began in 1894 with the establishment of Lowell Normal School (a two-year training college for teachers), continued through the transition to the four-year Lowell Teachers College in 1932, and concluded in 1959 with the founding of Lowell State College. From 1959 to 1975, Lowell State College served the region's need for comprehensive public higher education. It was not superseded in this role until the merging of Lowell State College and Lowell Technological Institute into one new organization—University of Lowell and then the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1991. The Lowell State College campus continues to serve as the core of what is now known as the University of Massachusetts Lowell's South Campus. The final enrollment at Lowell State College was 2,353 students with 1,877 of them undergraduates and 476 of them being postgraduates.
Lowell State College and its predecessor organizations—Lowell Normal School and Lowell Teachers College—together served as important economic, political, and cultural drivers to the region through the development of teachers to serve in schools in the region and the opportunities offered for further education in diverse fields as the school expanded. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of the country's early sites of industrial manufacturing, the city was the home of diverse and rapid immigration as new waves of new people sought jobs in the mills. Spanning the period from 1894 to 1960, Lowell State College (and its earlier iterations) were one of the major institutions in this regional city in northeastern Massachusetts.
The Lowell Normal School was chartered in 1894 as a teacher training institution. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, one of the new manufacturing towns springing up in America that had been carved out of several, earlier Colonial villages (Dracut, Chelmsford, Tyngsboro, Tewksbury), which were themselves sitting on land once the province of the indigenous peoples of the area. As a new and growing town, Lowell had established a reputation for educational innovation with the creation of the "first co-educational and racially integrated High School in the country (1831)."
Securing the right to establish the state school in Lowell required backing from the State Board of Education and the legislature of the Commonwealth. Normal schools already existed in Westfield, Bridgewater, Worcester, and Framingham, Massachusetts when the legislature began to consider the need for the development of more. The Lowell School Committee and the city council lobbied hard for the Normal School, eventually beating out the town of Lawrence for the honor. Along with Lowell, normal schools were created in Barnstable, Fitchburg, and North Adams.
Lowell Normal School opened in 1897 with 108 students—3 men joined the first class of 105 female students—and five faculty members. The two-year program prepared teachers to work in grades 1-9. Required classes included "educational methods and psychology and how to teach various subjects to children including English, mathematics, science, and drawing."
The original classroom building opened the next year at the corner of Broadway and Wilder streets and quickly became a landmark in the city. Designed by local firm Stickney & Austin, it reflects the fashion of the time: high-style Beaux Arts with classical symmetry, arches, cast-iron lampposts and yellow brick. Its design was influenced in part by Lowell High School, which was also designed by Lowell native Frederick W. Stickney. Frank Coburn, for whom the hall was later named, served as the school's first principal until 1908.
The main mission of the school at that time was to prepare students for the teaching of elementary education. Courses typically took two years, with the third and fourth years optional because of space in the building. In 1910, the mission of the school expanded with the creation of a three-year music program.
As the mission of the school was to train the students, they needed space so that the students would be able to practice their skills. The nearby Bartlett Training School was first used when 27 rooms were made available.