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302 MARYLAND MANUAL TOWSON STATE COLLEGE James L. Fisher, Ph.D., President Towson 21204 Telephone: 823-7500 The Towson State College was originally established as the State's first normal school by Chapter 160, Acts of 1865. Located for nearly fifty years in Baltimore, it was moved to its present suburban loca- tion at Towson in 1915 where it now occupies a campus of 324 acres. In 1935 it became a four-year teachers college and in 1963 a general State college. The college currently offers programs in teacher education, business administration, medical technology, nursing, and in the arts and sci- ences. Graduates in teacher education may be prepared for teaching in the early childhood, elementary, junior high or senior high grades. Students enrolled in the program of arts and sciences may qualify in any one of more than twenty-seven major fields for a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts degree. The college also offers a pro- gram of graduate studies for early childhood, elementary and second- ary school teachers, guidance counselors, urban teaching, art educa- tion, audio visual communication, music education, reading and school psychologists leading to the degree of Master of Education. Master's degree programs in the arts and sciences include Psychology, Biology, Speech Pathology, Audiology and Geography. An extension program of evening courses is available to teachers and other persons in the community who wish part-time evening instruction and two five-week day school and one eight-week evening summer sessions are operated. There is an annual minisemester operated during the month of Janu- ary available to students and the general public. The total number of students enrolled in the college for the aca- demic year 1972-1973 was 18,412, including day and evening in the regular session and the summer school enrollment.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND The Board of Regents Chairman : Louis L, Kaplan, 1976 Vice Chairman: Richard W. Case, 1975 Ex officio member: Young D. Hance, Secretary of Agriculture Appointed members: B. Herbert Brown, 1974; Alice H. Morgan, 1974; George C. Fry, 1975; Hugh A. McMullen, 1975; F. Grove Miller, Jr., 1975; L. Mercer Smith, 1976; Samuel H. Hoover, D.D.S., 1977; Edward V. Hurley, 1977; Mrs. Michael J. Deegan, Jr., 1978; Emerson C. Walden, M.D., 1978. Wilson H. Elkins, D.Phil., President and Chief Executive Officer R. Lee Hornbake, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs |
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