Arkansas State University Museum
Introduction
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The Arkansas State University Museum offers a variety of archaeological and natural history collections with an emphasis on the state of Arkansas. One of the first museums in the Southeast to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), it is the largest and most comprehensive museum in northeast Arkansas. The museum is located on the campus of Arkansas State University which was established in 1909 as an agricultural school that later grew into a comprehensive regional university.
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Dean B. Ellis library at Arkansas State University
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Centennial Bank Stadium at Arkansas State University
Entrance sign for the Jonesboro Campus
Fowler Center for Performing Arts at Arkansas State University
Backstory and Context
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Arkansas State University was one of four schools created after Governor George W. Donaghey signed Act 100 in April 1909. Until 1925, the school focussed on agriculture but after a donation from Robert E. Wilson, the campus expanded to include the arts, natural science, humanities, and social sciences. The school received more funding to support expansion in the early years of the Great Depression and was renamed Arkansas State College in 1933. Graduates in the early years of Arkansas State include Hattie Caraway, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
The 1950s and 1960s saw more growth and in 1967, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller approved another name change and Arkansas State College became Arkansas State University. in recent decades, Arkansas State has built satellite schools in Newport, Marked Tree, Paragould, and Beebe. In 2017, the school opened a branch in Queretaro, Mexico. Wilson Hall now serves as an instructional site for the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. Following the larger trend of universities and schools ending the use of Native American imagery as mascots, Arkansas State University changed their mascot from to the Red Wolves in 2008.
Sources
Banta, Brady M. Arkansas State University, Encyclopedia of Arkansas . October 25th 2019. Accessed November 23rd 2020. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-state-university-asu-2374/.
Arkansas State University, Astate.edu. May 10th 2020. Accessed November 23rd 2020. https://www.astate.edu/info/about-asu/history/.