Today, on another whim inspired by a Facebook posting, I was reminded that Dan Rather was a graduate of Sam Houston State University.
I am familiar with that Institution of Higher Learning, and know that when Dan attended, before every institution beyond high school wanted to be a "University", it was known as Sam Houston State Teachers College. The assistant director of our church choir, who also studied Sam Houston, said that many students thought Sam Houston Institute of Technology would have a nice ring to it. My mother, long before she became my mother, took classes at Steven F. Austin State Teachers College. the original Steven F Austin State University. My sister and her husband attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College, but when Rie, Donna, and The Matriarch attended, it had become Southwest Texas State University, but later someone had the brilliant revelation that since the Texas once recognized by Mexico was from a distant past, it was unfitting to call it "southwest" in the great wide state of Texas, so it is now Texas State University, a pretentious, and moderately confusing title.
I have similar thoughts about banking, health care, and business in general, but at this very moment in time, I wonder if perhaps delusions of grandeur are a significant contributor to the cost of higher education?
I am familiar with that Institution of Higher Learning, and know that when Dan attended, before every institution beyond high school wanted to be a "University", it was known as Sam Houston State Teachers College. The assistant director of our church choir, who also studied Sam Houston, said that many students thought Sam Houston Institute of Technology would have a nice ring to it. My mother, long before she became my mother, took classes at Steven F. Austin State Teachers College. the original Steven F Austin State University. My sister and her husband attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College, but when Rie, Donna, and The Matriarch attended, it had become Southwest Texas State University, but later someone had the brilliant revelation that since the Texas once recognized by Mexico was from a distant past, it was unfitting to call it "southwest" in the great wide state of Texas, so it is now Texas State University, a pretentious, and moderately confusing title.
I have similar thoughts about banking, health care, and business in general, but at this very moment in time, I wonder if perhaps delusions of grandeur are a significant contributor to the cost of higher education?
Will the ever-expanding Austin Community College soon want to be "The Capital of Texas Grande University"???
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