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Public university in Toledo, Ohio

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The Academy of Toledo
University of Toledo seal.png

Crest of the University of Toledo

Former name

 Toledo University of Arts & Trades (1872–1884)
Toledo Manual Grooming School (1884–1914)
Toledo University (1914–1967)
Motto Coadyuvando El Presente, Formando El Porvenir

Motto in English

 Guide to the Present, Moulder of the Hereafter
Type Public research university
Established October 12, 1872; 149 years agone  (October 12, 1872)

Parent institution

 University System of Ohio
Accreditation HLC

Academic affiliations
  • Urban 13/GCU
  • Space-grant
Endowment $433.7 meg (2020)[1]
President Gregory Postel (interim)

Academic staff

 2,232
Students 17,070[2]
Undergraduates 13,185[2]
Postgraduates 3,885[ii]
Location

Toledo

,

Ohio

,

U.s.a.


Coordinates: 41°39′28″Northward 83°36′49″W  /  41.657716°Northward 83.61366°W  / 41.657716; -83.61366
Campus Urban
Main, 813 acres (329 ha)
Wellness Scientific discipline, 450 acres (180 ha)
Scott Park, 160 acres (65 ha)
Newspaper The Independent Collegian
Colors Midnight Blue & Gilded[iii]
Nickname Rockets

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Partitioning I FBS – MAC
Mascot Rocky the Rocket & Rocksy the Rockette[4]
Website www.utoledo.edu
UT Hortz.svg

The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a public research university in Toledo, Ohio. It is the northernmost campus of the Academy System of Ohio.[5] The university also operates a 450-acre (180 ha) Health Science campus, which includes the University of Toledo Medical Center, in the Due west Toledo neighborhood of Toledo; a 160-acre (65 ha) satellite campus in the Scott Park neighborhood of Toledo; the Center for the Visual Arts is located in downtown Toledo at the Toledo Museum of Art; and a research and education facility, known every bit the Lake Erie Center, is at the Maumee Bay State Park.

The university was founded in 1872 in downtown Toledo as the Toledo Academy of Arts and Trades. It closed after six years and was eventually turned over to the urban center of Toledo to reopen in 1884 as the Toledo Manual Preparation School and adult from a vocational schoolhouse into a university through the tardily 1800s.[6] The university moved to its electric current location in the Ottawa neighborhood in 1931. Since its establishment, the university has physically expanded to include more than than 100 major buildings with a combined surface area of more than 1,400 acres (570 ha) and transformed its academic program from a vocational and secondary educational activity into a comprehensive enquiry university, known for its curriculum in the science, applied science, and medical fields. It is classified amid "R2: Doctoral Universities – High enquiry activity".[7] Toledo has over 100,000 living alumni and has a current enrollment of over 17,000 students. The university has over 300 educatee organizations and its athletic teams, called the Rockets, are members of the Mid-American Briefing.

History [edit]

Founding and early history [edit]

The Academy of Toledo began in 1872 as a private arts and trades school offering subjects such as painting and architectural cartoon.[viii] The idea behind the schoolhouse was fostered by Jesup Wakeman Scott, a local newspaper editor, who published a pamphlet in 1868 entitled "Toledo: Hereafter Great City of the World."[eight] Scott'due south publication expressed his belief that the center of globe commerce was moving west, and by 1900 would be located in Toledo. In preparation for the expected westward expansion of world commerce to Toledo, Scott donated 160 acres of land every bit an endowment for a university and the Toledo University of Arts and Trades was incorporated on October 12, 1872.[9] The university's original mission was to "replenish artists and artisans with the all-time facilities for a high culture in their professions...."[8] Scott died in 1874, a year before the university opened in an old church building edifice downtown Toledo.[8] Past the tardily 1870s the schoolhouse was in financial trouble and afterwards thirty years in functioning, the school closed in 1878.[eight] On January 8, 1884, the assets of the school became belongings of the metropolis of Toledo. The school reopened as the under management of the urban center as the Toledo Transmission Training School. It offered a three-year program for students at least 13 years sometime who received both academic and manual instruction.[eight]

Jerome Raymond, the university's first president, expanded its offerings in the early 1900s by affiliating with the Toledo Solarium of Music, the YMCA College of Law, and the Toledo Medical College. Raymond too created the College of Arts and Sciences.[8] Despite the expansion, the school struggled financially and endured various legal battles over command.[8] A. Monroe Stowe became president in 1914, and helped organize and stabilize the university and on January 30, 1914, the college became known as Toledo University.[9] Stowe founded the College of Commerce and Manufacture (later the College of Business Assistants) in 1914, and the College of Instruction in 1916.[8] During the catamenia, enrollment grew from 200 students to around 1,500.[viii] Along with the expanded academic offerings, extracurricular activities increased with the university'south offset intercollegiate athletic programs forming in 1915, including football game in 1917. Other organizations formed, such as the addition of a student council and the university's starting time student newspaper, The Universi-Teaser, in 1919.[eight] The able-bodied programs received their nickname, the Rockets, in 1923 from a newspaper writer, who thought the name reflected the teams playing style.[8]

University Hall

University Hall was completed in 1931.

By the 1920s, Toledo Academy was a growing institution, limited only by the buildings that housed information technology. Classes were held in two downtown buildings, but both were also small.[8] In 1922, the university moved into an automobile mechanics grooming facility that had been constructed for World War I on the original Scott land later information technology outgrew the two downtown buildings where the university first operated in.[8] Despite existence twice the size of the old buildings, the location on the Scott land apace became outdated afterward a 32 percentage increase in enrollment created a shortage in classroom space.[8] In 1928, Henry J. Doermann became president and presently initiated plans for a new campus. Doermann received his funding after a city-initiated bond levy passed by ten,000 votes.[eight] Doermann worked with a local architectural firm to design the new campus using design elements of the universities of Europe, the hope was that the compages would inspire students.[viii] Less than a year afterward, University Hall and the Field House were completed in the Collegiate Gothic way.[8] Although enrollments remained stable during the Slap-up Depression, Philip C. Nash, who became president post-obit Doermann's sudden death, instituted drastic measures to cut costs combined with New Bargain funds from the federal government to assist pay for new structure and scholarships.[eight]

The impact of World War Ii drastically affected the university.[8] The armed services contracted with university to offer war-training programs for both war machine and civilian persons.[8] Areas of report for civilians included: Applied science, Scientific discipline and Direction War Training program classes, and Civilian Airplane pilot Preparation classes.[8] The military machine used the university to business firm, and train a detachment of the 27th Ground forces Air Crew while the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps trained nurses for ground forces field hospitals.[8] Enrollment of women grew during the war and many educatee organizations reflected the changes, intercollegiate basketball and football were suspended while the university's Red Cantankerous chapter, the first of its kind at a university, sponsored knitting bees to brand sweaters for soldiers.[eight]

Post-war era [edit]

After the war, the GI Beak of Rights helped veterans pay for college tuition post-obit the state of war and over 3,000 veterans took reward of the program at UT.[8] In 1945, the university purchased surplus military housing for the veterans and moved information technology to campus. The complex, known every bit "Nashville", transitioned into married student housing until 1974 after the superlative of veterans decreased.[8]

In 1947, Wilbur West. White replaced Nash. White proposed a progressive ten-year evolution plan, only he died in 1950 before the new development was completed.[8] The university, under new president Dr. Asa Knowles, connected White's plan and completed a new men's dormitory in 1952 and the new library in 1953. Educational programming for adult students was expanded and created the Greater Toledo Boob tube Foundation to utilize television for educational purposes.[8]

In 1958, Knowles met with Toledo City Council to secure a new plan for the hereafter financing of the academy, during the 1940s the 12 percentage of the urban center's budget was allocated to the academy and this percentage proved unsustainable.[viii] Council suggested that the university acquire financial help from the state of Ohio to relieve the city's fiscal burden.[8]

Asa Knowles resigned the presidency that same yr just William S. Carlson pursued the issue and three bills were introduced into the state legislature in 1959 to propose a educatee subsidy for united states of america three largest municipal universities, University of Toledo, forth with the University of Akron and University of Cincinnati.[8] The bills stalled but a $two million levy was passed that same year to aid sustain the university.[8] Ohio's three largest municipal universities continued to push for financial aid from the state and finally succeeded on July ane, 1967. The decision fabricated the university a land university, subsequently operating as a municipal university for over 80 years.[8] In improver to subsidy for students, state support provided capital letter improvement money for campus building construction,[viii] the academy changed its name to the University of Toledo.[9]

The 1960s saw an increase of political and social activism on the UT campus. Like many universities, UT campus experienced frequent educatee protests.[8] Students protested a variety of issues, ranging from a peaceful nutrient riot in 1968 over the quality of nutrient, to protests past students opposing the Vietnam War that lead to several arrests.[8] In 1970, UT students remained peaceful post-obit the Kent State shootings of protesters. UT experienced racial tension when a protest by African American students in May 1970 in response to Jackson Country killings temporarily closed Academy Hall.[viii] Again, the UT protest ended peacefully when the university president met with the students.[eight]

Late 20th century [edit]

Horton International House and Parks Tower

Horton International House was part of the edifice boom of the 1980s and 1990s.

UT celebrated its centennial in 1972 with a year of celebrations. Also that year, President Carlson retired, and Glen R. Driscoll was selected as new university president and began further expansion of the university with the addition of the Eye for Performing Arts and Vicious Hall in 1976, the Centre for Standing Teaching in 1978, and Stranahan Hall in 1984.[viii] The university replacing parking lots and the aging army billet with Centennial Mall, a 9-acre landscaped mall in the center of campus.[8] Construction began in 1985 on SeaGate Center in downtown Toledo as part of downtown'south revitalization efforts.[8] McMaster Hall was completed in 1987 and plans for the Educatee Recreation Center were made in 1990. That same year, the Greek Village and the Larimer Athletic Complex was completed and the Glass Bowl underwent renovations.[8]

Frank E. Horton, former president of the University of Oklahoma, was selected thirteenth president in Oct 1988 and continued the growth of the university, fostered by the previous presidents.[8] Horton began a big strategic planning effort and organized the growth of the university.[8] To help accomplish the plans, in 1993 the university launched a $40 million fund-raising campaign chosen UT40.[viii] During the mid-1990s, UT renovated commercial buildings at Dorr Street and Secor Road for classrooms.[8] A new Academic Center and Residence Hall was congenital in 1992 to house the Honors Programme.[8] The Middle for the Visual Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art was also finished that same year; followed by the International House Residence Hall and Nitschke Hall in 1995.[8] And structure began in 1995 on a Chemist's, Chemical science and Life Sciences complex on the main campus and a Lake Erie Research Center at Maumee Bay State Park.[eight] The 1990s also included significant growth in technology. The university joined OhioLINK, a statewide library network, in 1994. Computer labs and hook-ups in dorms and offices provided Internet admission and the university established a homepage on the World Wide Spider web.[viii]

21st century [edit]

The University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts

Later on a protracted protestation by students, staff, kinesthesia and community members, the board of trustees of the academy agreed to include domestic partner benefits in the wellness care portion of the contract for faculty and staff with an constructive offset date of April 1, 2006. This development made the University of Toledo the first state university to begin covering domestic partners afterwards the passage of Ohio Issue one, several others had partner benefits earlier and continued them later on the ban. The protest gained momentum later Nov 2004, when result one was voted into law as an Ohio Constitutional amendment but began over a decade earlier with the piece of work of several faculty members.

On March 31, 2006, Governor Bob Taft signed House Bill 478, which merged the University of Toledo with the Medical University of Ohio.[10] The merger became effective on July 1, 2006. The institution retained the Academy of Toledo proper noun, and the former Medical University of Ohio facilities are referred to as the Health Scientific discipline Campus.[11] Toledo became the third largest public university in Ohio in terms of its operating budget, too every bit one of only 17 public universities in the country that has colleges of business, education, applied science, constabulary, medicine and chemist's. As a consequence of this merger, the College of Chemist's will exist one of only 45 American Colleges of Chemist's shop located in an academic health science center. The college's "Future of Pharmacy" campaign (2008–2010) was initiated to raise scholarship and equipment funds for the higher's expansion into a new building on the health science campus, an expansion that will increase educational and research opportunities for students and faculty.[12] What used to be called the College of Arts and Sciences was divided into three colleges, including the College of Languages, Literature and Social Sciences, the College of Communications and the Arts, and the Higher of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Academics [edit]

The University of Toledo offers over 250 academic programs in a diverse and comprehensive range of studies. Information technology is the sixth largest university in Ohio by enrollment, and offers a 20:1 student-to-faculty ratio and a median class size of 25.

National honour societies such as Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi have chapters at UT. The university also offers several ways in which students tin can enrich their academic experience. These include the Honors College, study abroad, service learning, and undergraduate enquiry.

Academic rankings
National
ARWU [13] 155-175
Forbes [14] 619
THE/WSJ [fifteen] 492
U.S. News & Globe Report [16] 298-389
Washington Monthly [17] 291
Global
ARWU [18] 601-700
THE [xix] 501-600
U.S. News & Earth Study [twenty] 834

Toledo is a public university and is governed by a board of trustees, and the Ohio Board of Regents, both appointed by the Governor of Ohio. The board is composed of 14 members, and is currently chaired by Joseph H. Zerbey, IV.[21] The board members, which are unpaid customs members, delegates its executive ability to the president. The current interim president is Gregory Postel.[22]

The Academy of Toledo is composed of the following colleges and schools:

  • College of Developed and Lifelong Learning
  • Higher of Arts and Letters
  • College of Business and Innovation[23]
  • School of Healthcare Concern Enterprise and Innovation
  • College of Health and Human being Services
  • Judith Herb College of Education
  • Higher of Engineering science
  • Higher of Graduate Studies
  • College of Health Sciences
  • College of Law
  • College of Medicine and Life Sciences
  • School of Biomarkers and Advanced Simulation
  • College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • School of Green Chemistry and Avant-garde Renewable Energy
  • College of Nursing
  • Higher of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
  • College of Visual and Performing Arts
  • Jesup West. Scott Honors College
  • UT Online

Research [edit]

Fountain and University Hall

University Hall sits behind Centennial Mall in the foreground.

The university has the Academy of Toledo Research Enterprise and a number of inquiry centers and institutes.

Located at Maumee Bay Country Park, the Lake Erie Middle supports interdisciplinary enquiry involving environmental issues affecting the Great Lakes.

The UT Polymer Institute, function of the College of Technology, supports research in polymers and plastic technology.

The Wright Middle for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC) was created in January 2007 with an $18.6 million grant from the Ohio Department of Development and $thirty million from federal agencies, universities and industrial partners to perform research involved establishing scientific discipline and technology platforms, employing second and third generation photovoltaics (PV) materials, and devices tailored for applications in clean electricity generation.[24] The 3 master locations of the Wright Centre for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC) include The Academy of Toledo, Ohio Land University, and Bowling Green State University.[24]

The center'south research is focused on improving large area materials and devices, increasing the efficiency of solar technologies, and lowering product costs – with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of solar-powered electrical generation systems in homes, businesses, and utilities, likewise every bit supporting the nation's defense and aerospace needs for advanced solar energy systems.

In 2012, the University of Toledo joined as partner members of the Lowell Discovery Telescope (formerly Discovery Channel Telescope).[25]

Athletics [edit]

The University of Toledo's able-bodied teams play as the Rockets, and uniforms sport the colors midnight blue and gold. The university'southward sports teams play in the Mid-American Conference. The Rockets football game team holds ix Mid-American Conference championships, in 1967 (co-champion with Ohio) 1969, 1970, 1971, 1981, 1984, 1990 (co-champs with Western Michigan), 1995, 2001, 2004, and 2017.

Toledo Rockets football played in the 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl on December 26, 2010, against Florida International. Toledo lost the game 34–32. Toledo played in the 2015 Go Daddy Basin confronting Arkansas State on Jan 5, 2015. The Rockets won 63–44.

In the season of 2009, the men's tennis team finished second in regular season with a 17–x record, and reached the finals of the MAC tournament for the get-go time in 35 years.

The Toledo Rockets men'southward basketball team was the 2006–07 Mid-American Conference champion nether Head Coach Stan Joplin, a former star thespian for the Rockets during the tardily 1970s, and was an banana double-decker from 1984 to 1990. He was fired after slumping to an 11–nineteen record in 2007–08. The squad received an NCAA Award For High Academic Functioning Toledo tied for third-best April marker in nation and MAC for second straight twelvemonth.[ when? ] The University of Toledo men'south basketball program ranks at the elevation of the Mid-American Conference for a second direct year in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Bookish Performance Rating (April).[ when? ] Toledo's 994 rating was tied for tertiary place among all NCAA Partition I men's basketball programs and trails only Columbia and Davidson.[ when? ]

In the Spring of 2011, the University of Toledo women'due south basketball game team won the WNIT, condign the commencement MAC team in any sport to win a National Title in modern times.

The women'due south cantankerous land has won iv MAC Championships (2001, 2002, 2010, 2011) and three MAC Runner-up finishes (2003, 2005, 2009). The women's cross land squad finished 21st at the NCAA Championships in 2011 and 28th at the NCAA Championships in 2010. The women'due south rails team likewise finished equally the 2012 MAC Indoor and Outdoor Runner-up.

Rocky and Rocksy at the 2017 Convocation

The University of Toledo has two official mascots, Rocky the Rocket and Rocksy the Rockette. Rocky was introduced in 1966, and Rocksy was introduced in 2011. UT besides has an official spirit coiffure known equally Bluish Crew. The Academy of Toledo Rocket Marching Band performs a pre-game bear witness and halftime show at all home football games in the Drinking glass Basin.

Bowling Green rivalry [edit]

Toledo's master football game rivals are the Falcons of Bowling Dark-green Country University. The two teams formerly played for a bays each year known as the Peace Pipe, a prize that originated in basketball game but progressed to football in 1980. Due to NCAA regulations and an agreement betwixt the two schools, new to the rivalry will be the "Battle of I-75" trophy, a statuary bays awarded to the winner of the game. Toledo now leads the series, and Toledo currently has been dominating the series going ten-one in the terminal eleven meetings, recently including a 66–37 blowout win at Bowling Green's domicile field, Doyt Perry Stadium.[26] [27]

Lodge sports [edit]

The Academy of Toledo also has a number of guild sports under the direction of the university'due south Partition of Pupil Diplomacy. Club sports receive funding from the university as student organizations, associated expenses in the sports are often supplemented by students' pay-to-play dues and fundraising activities. Club sports offered by UT include: bowling, women'due south basketball, crew, cross state, men's ice hockey, men'south and women'south lacrosse, quidditch, sailing, men'south soccer, table lawn tennis, tennis, track and field, men's and women's ultimate disc, fencing, men's and women's volleyball, h2o polo, and wrestling.[28]

A few contempo accomplishments of the University of Toledo Sport Clubs include three straight individual wrestling national championships from 2006 to 2008; iii Midwest-Collegiate Sailing Association Championships in 1950, 2008, and 2009; two Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championship appearances in 2008 and 2009; a NIRSA Open Partitioning Soccer National Championship in 1996; and an American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Partition I National Championship in 1992.

Ice hockey [edit]

The Toledo Rockets men's ice hockey team is a member of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division Ii. Too belonging to the ACHA, the squad is also an original member of a conference known as the Tri-State Collegiate Hockey League (TSCHL) which was established in 2010.[29] The team plays a 30–35 game schedule against other club teams in the region.

Notable alumni, kinesthesia and staff [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • University of Toledo Athletics website

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