Editing California State University (section)

=== State Normal Schools ===
[[File:California State Normal School, San Jose LCCN2003681544.tif|thumb|The [[California State Normal School]], founded in 1862 in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], (today's [[San Jose State University]]) is the oldest campus of the CSU system.]]
Today's California State University system is the direct descendant of the [[Minns Evening Normal School]], founded in 1857 by [[George W. Minns]] in [[San Francisco]]. It was a [[normal school]], an institution that educated future teachers in association with the [[High school (North America)|high school]] system and the first of its kind in California.

The school was taken over by the state in 1862 and moved to [[San Jose, California|San Jose]] and renamed the [[California State Normal School]]; it eventually evolved into [[San Jose State University]].<ref name="Gerth1">{{cite book|last1=Gerth|first1=Donald R.|title=The People's University: A History of the California State University|date=2010|publisher=Berkeley Public Policy Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-87772-435-3|pages=5–9}}</ref> A southern branch of the California State Normal School was created in Los Angeles in 1882.<ref name="Gerth2">{{cite book|last1=Gerth|first1=Donald R.|title=The People's University: A History of the California State University|date=2010|publisher=Berkeley Public Policy Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-87772-435-3|pages=10–11}}</ref> In 1887, the [[California State Legislature]] dropped the word California from the name of the San Jose and Los Angeles schools, renaming them State Normal Schools.
[[File:Kendall Hall as seen from Laxson Auditorium-01006.jpg|thumb|right|The [[California State Normal School|Northern Branch of the State Normal School]], founded 1887, became [[California State University, Chico]].]]
Later, other state normal schools were founded at Chico (1887) and San Diego (1897); they did not form a system in the modern sense, in that each normal school had its own board of trustees and all were governed independently from one another.<ref name="Douglass_Page_137">{{cite book |last1=Douglass |first1=John Aubrey |title=The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan |date=2000 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |isbn=978-0-8047-3189-8 |page=137}}</ref><ref name="Gerth3">{{cite book|last1=Gerth|first1=Donald R.|title=The People's University: A History of the California State University|date=2010|publisher=Berkeley Public Policy Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-87772-435-3|pages=11–26}}</ref> By the end of the 19th century, the State Normal School in San Jose was graduating roughly 130 teachers a year and was "one of the best known normal schools in the West."<ref>{{cite book |title=Where to educate, 1898–1899. A guide to the best private schools, higher institutions of learning, etc., in the United States |last=Thomas |first=Grace Powers |year=1898 |publisher=Brown and Company |location=Boston |page=17 |accessdate=August 17, 2012 |url=https://archive.org/stream/wheretoeducate1800thomrich#page/17/mode/1up}}</ref>

In 1919, the State Normal School at Los Angeles became the Southern Branch of the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]]; in 1927, it became the [[University of California, Los Angeles|University of California at Los Angeles]].<ref name="Gerth4">{{cite book|last1=Gerth|first1=Donald R.|title=The People's University: A History of the California State University|date=2010|publisher=Berkeley Public Policy Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-87772-435-3|pages=26–30}}</ref>