Smith, foresaw continued veteran growth and promised students that as long as enrollment kept above 1,, the school was safe for another year. However, the future course of this "temporary" extension center was far from certain. You will be warned if necessary. You will have time to leave. Don't get excited. In spite of repeated assurances from the authorities, the Columbia River broke through the dike protecting the city on the soggy afternoon of Sunday, May 30, the same day the Housing Authority issued its reassuring bulletin.
A foot wall of water rushed in, and within two hours, the homes and possessions of many students and families, as well as the Extension Center buildings, were under several feet of water. Vanport City was destroyed, and the dreams of a permanent college appeared to be lost.
The road to college status was filled with political potholes. After the flood, Chancellor Paul C. After the flood, Epler and his colleagues scrambled to keep the center alive. There was a much larger problem to solve: finding a location for the coming fall.
The federal government came to the rescue. Space for the new campus was found in North Portland in buildings formerly occupied by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. The new campus soon came to be known affectionately as "Oregon Ship. Students named the Oregon shipyard building Vanport College, even though it was still officially Vanport Extension Center.
Director Stephen Epler wryly observed, "We are fortunate in having probably the largest single college parking lot in the nation and perhaps the world. Republic Act converted the school into a chartered institution, the then Central Luzon Teachers College on June 21, As provided in the charter of the college, the major functions of the institution are instruction, research and extension service.
As the University started its operations in June , it had two Colleges of Agriculture located in Sta. Art and Science courses were also offered in the College of Education in Bayambang.
During the same year also, the land site of the PSU Main Administration was donated by the provincial government of Pangasinan. The following year , the seat of the University Administration was transferred form Bayambang to Lingayen with the completion of the Administration Building. As Pennsylvania's only land-grant university, Penn State has a broad mission of teaching, research, and public service.
But that mission was not so grandly conceived in , when the Commonwealth chartered it as one of the nation's first colleges of agricultural science, with a goal to apply scientific principles to farming. Centre County became the site of the new college in response to a gift of acres from gentleman farmer and ironmaster James Irvin of Bellefonte.
Founding President Evan Pugh drew on the scientific education he had received in Europe to plan a curriculum that combined theoretical studies with practical applications. Pugh and similar visionaries in other states championed Congressional passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act in The act enabled states to sell federal land, invest the proceeds, and use the income to support colleges "where the leading object shall be, without excluding scientific and classical studies
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