Utah State University

Entity: 1248
Entity Type: Colleges and Universities

Abstract

Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's land grant university under state legislation and congressional enactments of 1862, 1867, and subsequent years. State legislation approving establishment of an agricultural college in Cache county was approved March 8, 1888.

Biography/History Notes

Mission: "Utah State University serves as the state's land-grant institution under state and federal legislation and is a primary center of university research and of graduate, professional, and undergraduate education in numerous authorized fields of study." (From "Capitol Connections" newsletter, volume 2, issue 6, October 1994, page 4.) Chronology:?1888 -- Agricultural College of Utah founded ("Laws, 1888," Chapter LXII, page 215).?1929 -- Agricultural College of Utah renamed Utah State Agricultural College ("Laws of Utah, 1929," Chapter 41, pp. 45-51).?1957 -- Utah State Agricultural College renamed Utah State University of Agricultural and Applied Science ("Laws of Utah, 1957," Chapter 102, pp. 231-232). USU attains university status.

The university is directed by a president and a body of executive officers who work with a Board of Trustees and the Utah State Board of Regents.

Forty-five departments in eight academic colleges, as well as an extensive School of Graduate Studies, make up Utah State University. USU has an active distance education component with extension agents and specialists in every county.

Hierarchy

Board of Higher Education
Utah State University

Functions

Higher education