Editing Texas State University System (section)

==History==
The [[Texas Legislature]] established the State Normal School Board of Regents in 1911, which would later become the present-day Texas State University System, for the control and management of the state normal schools for white teachers.<ref name="HB 17">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth9792/m1/1308/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 15]|title=General and Special Laws of the State of Texas Passed by the Thirty-Second Legislature at its First Called Session|chapter=Chapter 5: Creating a state Normal School Board of Regents for the State Normal Schools for White Teachers|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1911|pages=74–76|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> The board originally assumed authority over North Texas State Normal College (founded 1890), Sam Houston Normal Institute (1879), Southwest Texas Normal School (1899), and West Texas State Normal College (1909).<ref name="History">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.tsus.edu/about/history.html|publisher=Texas State University System|access-date=June 10, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910174441/http://www.tsus.edu/about/history.html|archive-date=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

The Legislature authorized the establishment of Sul Ross Normal College<ref name="SB 397">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth12596/m1/1303/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 17]|title=General Laws of the State of Texas Passed by the Thirty-Fifth Legislature at its Regular Session|chapter=Chapter 197: Establishment of "Sul Ross Normal College."|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1917|pages=442–444|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref><ref name="HB 58">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth12597/m1/1156/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 18]|title=Local and Special Laws of the State of Texas Passed at the Third Called Session of the Thirty-Fifth Legislature|chapter=Chapter 32: Postponing Construction and Expenditure of Appropriations for "Sul Ross Normal College," "Stephen F. Austin State Normal College" and "South Texas State Normal College."|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1918|pages=74–76|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> and the purchase of the private East Texas Normal College, founded in 1889, in 1917<ref name="SB 231">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth12596/m1/1299/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 17]|title=General Laws of the State of Texas Passed by the Thirty-Fifth Legislature at its Regular Session|chapter=Chapter 195: Purchase of East Texas Normal College.|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1917|pages=438–440|access-date=August 22, 2016}}</ref> That same year, the Legislature authorized the renaming of the system's normal schools to normal colleges. Political struggles for the creation of Stephen F. Austin Normal College and South Texas Normal College (Texas A&M-Kingsville) were resolved in 1921.<ref name="SFA founding">{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Jere|title=Dreams Long Deferred|url=http://www2.sfasu.edu/story/articles/Aug23-Uncertainties.html|publisher=[[Stephen F. Austin State University]]|date=August 23, 1998|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref> Further legislation in 1923 renamed the system's members again to state teachers colleges<ref name="SB 176">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14933/m1/957/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 21]|title=General Laws of the State of Texas Passed by the Thirty-Eighth Legislature at the Regular Session|chapter=Chapter 160: State Normal Colleges—Changing Name Of|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1923|page=341|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref> while the board was renamed the Board of Regents, State Teachers Colleges.<ref name="History"/> South Texas left the system in 1929 to be governed independently as Texas Arts and Industrial College (Texas A&I) before eventually joining the [[Texas A&M University System]] as Texas A&M-Kingsville.<ref name="SB 293">{{cite book|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16364/m1/643/|series=The Laws of Texas [Volume 26]|title=General Laws of the State of Texas Passed by the Forty-First Legislature at the Regular Session|chapter=Chapter 286: Converting South Texas State Teachers College into the Texas College of Arts and Industries|editor-last=Gammel|editor-first=Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen|publisher=Gammel's Book Store|location=[[Austin, Texas]]|year=1929|pages=627–631|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref>

Sul Ross and West Texas received name changes in 1949 becoming Sul Ross State College and West Texas State College.<ref name="SRSC">{{cite book|url=https://www.sll.texas.gov/library-resources/collections/historical-texas-statutes/bookreader/1950/#page/235/mode/1up|series=Vernon's Texas Statutes, 1950 Supplement|title=Tit. 49, Art. 2647g|publisher=Vernon Law Book Company|location=Kansas City MO|year=1950|page=211|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref><ref name="WTSC">{{cite book|url=https://www.sll.texas.gov/library-resources/collections/historical-texas-statutes/bookreader/1950/#page/234/mode/1up|series=Vernon's Texas Statutes, 1950 Supplement|title=Tit. 49, Art. 2647d|publisher=Vernon Law Book Company|location=Kansas City MO|year=1950|page=210|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> North Texas would leave the system the same year becoming independently governed North Texas State College.<ref name="NT">{{cite book|url=https://www.sll.texas.gov/library-resources/collections/historical-texas-statutes/bookreader/1950/#page/234/mode/2up/search/2651a|series=Vernon's Texas Statutes, 1950 Supplement|title=Tit. 49, Art. 2651a|publisher=Vernon Law Book Company|location=Kansas City MO|year=1950|pages=211–213|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> North Texas would later become the flagship campus of the [[University of North Texas System]]. Similar name changes would result in Southwest Texas State College in 1959 and Sam Houston State College in 1965.<ref name="History"/> West Texas State College became West Texas State University in 1963.<ref name="HoT WTS">{{cite web|title=West Texas A&M University|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kcw03|last=Young|first=Nancy Beck|publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]], [[Handbook of Texas Online]]|access-date=June 12, 2006}}</ref>

The year 1965 also saw the incorporation of Angelo State College, founded as a junior college in 1928, into the system. With these changes, the board became titled the Board of Regents, State Senior Colleges. All of the system's components had their names changed from state colleges to state universities in 1969<ref name="History"/><ref name="ASU">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Singg|first=Sangeeta|title=Angelo State University|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kca07|encyclopedia=[[Handbook of Texas Online]]|access-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref> while East Texas (Texas A&M-Commerce)<ref name="HB 242">{{cite web|title=House Bill 242, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/sessionLaws/61-0/HB_242_CH_23.pdf|publisher=Legislative Reference Library of Texas|year=1969|access-date=August 22, 2016}}</ref> and West Texas (West Texas A&M)<ref name="SB 93">{{cite web|title=Senate Bill 93, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/LASDOCS/61R/SB93/SB93_61R.pdf#page=10|publisher=Legislative Reference Library of Texas|year=1969|access-date=August 22, 2016}}</ref> left the system entirely in 1969 to become independent before settling on their present affiliations with the Texas A&M University System. Stephen F. Austin left the system the same year<ref name="SB 416">{{cite web|title=Senate Bill 416, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/LASDOCS/61R/SB416/SB416_61R.pdf#page=10|publisher=Legislative Reference Library of Texas|year=1969|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref> and continued to be an independent with its separate governing regents outside any of the state's other university systems, until 2023, when its regents elected to join the [[University of Texas System]].

Sul Ross established upper-division and post-graduate study centers in 1973 on campuses of [[Southwest Texas Junior College]] in Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and Uvalde.

The Legislature conferred upon the system in 1975 its present designation as the Texas State University System. Angelo State University was re-designated as a member along with Sam Houston State University, Southwest Texas State University, and Sul Ross State University.<ref name="History"/>

In the most transformative change to the TSUS in its history, the [[Lamar University System]] was abolished in 1995 and its four members were incorporated into the TSUS: Lamar University (founded 1923), Lamar Institute of Technology (1995), Lamar University Orange (1969), and Lamar University Port Arthur (1909).<ref name="History"/><ref name="LIT history">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.lit.edu/about/History.aspx|publisher=Lamar Institute of Technology|access-date=June 11, 2016}}</ref>

Southwest Texas State opened an extension center in 1996 housed in temporary buildings adjacent to a Round Rock high school. After a 2004 land donation, the permanent Texas State University Round Rock Campus was opened in 2005.<ref name="TSRR history">{{cite web|title=History of the Texas State Round Rock Campus|url=http://www.rrc.txstate.edu/about/story.html|publisher=Texas State University|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref>

Sam Houston State opened The Woodlands University Center in 1998. The following year, the former Lamar campuses in Orange and [[Port Arthur massacre (Australia)|Port Arthur]] were renamed Lamar State College Orange and Lamar State College Port Arthur.

In 2003, the Legislature changed the name of Southwest Texas State to Texas State University-San Marcos. The name was shortened to Texas State University in 2013.<ref name="History"/>

Angelo State University left the system to affiliate with the [[Texas Tech University System]] in 2007 in the most recent change in system membership.<ref name="CR4.4.4.11">Title 3, Subtitle F, Chapter 109A, [http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.109A.htm#109A.001 Sec 109A.001], ''Texas Education Code''. Retrieved on June 13, 2016.</ref>

Sam Houston State operated an additional branch, the University Park Campus at [[Lone Star College–University Park]] near [[Tomball, Texas|Tomball]] from 2011<ref name="SHSU UPC opening">{{cite press release |last=Gauntt |first=Jennifer |date=March 29, 2011 |title= SHSU To Showcase New Campus With Open House |url= http://www.shsu.edu/~pin_www/T@S/2011/nwhcampus.html |location=Huntsville, Texas |publisher=Sam Houston State University |access-date=July 14, 2016}}</ref> until it was discontinued at the beginning of 2016.<ref name="SHSU UPC closing">{{cite press release |last=Parrett |first=Tammy |date=September 18, 2015 |title=SHSU To Close University Park Campus |url=http://www.shsu.edu/today@sam/T@S/article/2015/up-site-closing |location=Huntsville, Texas |publisher=Sam Houston State University |access-date=July 14, 2016}}</ref>

===Membership timeline===
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