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Originally, Boston College was where the first Freshman Orientation class was offered in the year 1888. Reed College, based in Portland, Oregon, was the first institution to offer a course for credit when, in 1911, they offered a course that was divided into men-only and women-only sections that met for 2 hours per week for the year.
The university attracted 100 students in 2007, its first year, [60] but the school was unable to achieve the 100–150 new students per year needed for the program to be viable, and in 2010 MSU closed the program and the campus.
On September 19, 1969, Michigan State University accepted the legislative mandate and agreed to create a new osteopathic medical school on their campus, [7] making it the first osteopathic medical school based at a public university. [9] In 1971, MCOM was moved to East Lansing and was given its current name of MSUCOM.
Penn State raised tuition last year, 2.5% for in-state undergrads and 2.75% for out-of-state/graduate students. Prior to that, tuition costs held steady for three consecutive academic years.
In 2017, a federal endowment tax was enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the form of an excise tax of 1.4% on institutions that have at least 500 tuition-paying students and net assets of at least $500,000 per student. The $500,000 is not adjusted for inflation, so the threshold is effectively lowered over time.
Education classes were first held at Penn in 1893, and a professorship in education was created two years later in 1895. The full-fledged school of education was established as a separate school within the university in 1914, initially conferring only Bachelor of Science in Education degrees.
In 1967, the College of Human Medicine was approved for a four-year degree program. The first MDs graduated in 1972. In 2006, Marsha D. Rappley, M.D., became the first graduate of the College of Human Medicine to become dean of the medical school. [8] In August 2007, enrollment increased from 106 first-year students to 156 students. [8]
Joan Howarth began her deanship at Michigan State University College of Law on July 1, 2008 and was the first female dean in MSU Law's 117-year history. Beforehand, she was a professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, since 2001. [22] She retired at the end of the 2015-16 school year. [23]