CREATING A UNIVERSITY
By Bill Goodykoontz
ASU's development over the past half-century has been "a wonderful evolution."

By the mid-1950s, Arizona State College had the faculty, the students and the programs to be a university.

It just didn't have the name.

Getting permission to tack "university" after Arizona State meant added prestige, status and responsibility for what had until very recently been strictly a teachers college. That's why so much was at stake when the name change was put to a public vote in 1958.

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