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Coordinates: 40°25′40″N 86°54′54″W 40.427872, -86.914945

Purdue University

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address, Directions, & Map:
    • West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: 765-494-4600
  • Official Website: [1]
• History & Memorable Moments

• Founding and early years

On July 2, 1862, President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act into law, which offered public lands to any state that would establish and maintain a college for the purpose of teaching agriculture and mechanics. In 1865, the Indiana General Assembly took advantage of this offer, and began plans to establish such an institution. After being denied a professorship at Indiana University, John Purdue, a Lafayette business leader and philanthropist (buried at Purdue), sought to help establish a secondary college in the state of Indiana. The state of Indiana received a gift of $150,000 from John Purdue, along with $50,000 from Tippecanoe County, and 150 acres (0.6 km²) of land from Lafayette residents in support of the project. On May 6, 1869, it was decided that the college would be founded near the city of Lafayette and legislators established the institution as Purdue University, in the name of the institution’s principal benefactor. ^[1]

Classes first began at Purdue on September 16, 1874 with three buildings, six instructors, and 39 students. Purdue issued its first degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, in 1875. The first female students were admitted to the university in the fall of the same year. By 1883 enrollment had increased beyond 350, and by the turn of the 20th century Purdue had begun a period of active expansion: scholarship standards were raised, courses were expanded, and equipment was improved. ^[1]

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• Teachers (Where are they now?)
  • Jacobs, Rixi (August 2001 - August 2005)
  • Robards, Jason (January 2000 - Present)
  • Shah, Rahul T (September 2002 - Present)
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