is an accredited
University operated by the
Tennessee Board Of Regents with its principal campus in
Johnson City, Tennessee . It also has small off-campus centers in nearby
Kingsport, Tennessee ,
Bristol, Tennessee , and
Greeneville, Tennessee . It began as a
Normal School to educate teachers and was subsequently expanded into a college with a large range of
Liberal Arts offerings, and developed into a full university in the
1960s .
Graduate programs include a fully accredited
Medical School , the , named in honor of U.S. Congressman
James H. Quillen who successfully fought for its creation in the
1970s . In
2005 a College of Pharmacy was approved which will further augment the medical specialties at ETSU. Classes in the College of Pharmacy will begin in
January 2007 . Students commonly refer to the school as "Pride U," a nickname taken from the ETSU Foundation's annual "ETSU Pride" fund-raising campaign.
ETSU has been increasingly noted for its Appalachian Studies programs and features a nationally acclaimed and accredited program in Bluegrass and Country Music. Recording star
Kenny Chesney ,
2004 Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, graduated from the school, but holds a degree from the Mass Communications program. Another notable ETSU attendee is
Timothy Busfield , known for his Emmy Award-winning role on the popular
1980s TV Series ''
Thirtysomething ''. Busfield attended ETSU for a short while, but did not graduate. He starred in a series of advertisements for the school in the late 1980s.
Athletic teams,
Nickname d the ''Buccaneers'', compete in the
NCAA Division I Atlantic Sun Conference . The 2005 move from the
Southern Conference was an indirect result of ETSU's decision to drop
Football after the
2003 season. This left the campus' largest building, the "
Mini Dome ", an indoor arena which had previously been one of the few on-campus indoor venues for
College Football in the U.S., deprived of what was its originally-designed primary function, although the building remains ready to host (and frequently does) other events, including many which could not be housed in an indoor setting on most college campuses.
- http://www.etsu.edu
- http://www.etsubucs.com
- http://johnsonsdepot.com/normal/normal.htm
