Which universities pulled up roots...and moved? (Ivy League, NYU, med school)

[edsg25]

Most universities stay put, where they were founded, but some pull up their roots and move to a new location, a new campus. What universities fulfill that description? (I'll name a few)

UIC: founded after WWII to educate returning vets in Chicago, the U of I opened a branch on Navy Pier, a two year school, part of the Champaign campus, with sophomores who chose going on to the main campus downstate. The university moved to its current west side location in 1965, because its own institution, first UICC (from the Chicago Circle downtown interchange next door), later to be combined with the UI Med School to become UIC

University of Michigan: began in Detroit with the unfortunate name of Catholepistemiad of Michigan. Some years later, Ann Arbor has set aside land it hoped would be selected as the state capital. That went to Lansing, so Ann Arbor offered up the acreage to the university.

Wake Forest: If Wake Forest had stayed in Wake Forest, there would have been a Research Quadrilateral, not Research Triangle. WF kissed UNC, NC State & Duke good bye in the late 1940s, and relocated in Winston Salem ....with a big donation from the Reyonds Foundation

Columbia University: the very Ivy League and very colonially rooted Columbia began life as Kings College in very colonial lower Manhattan. Like much of Manhattan, Columbia moved uptown, first to 49th & Madison and then further uptown to its current and permanent Morningside Has. campus.

UCLA: if Columbia moved up, UCLA moved out. The old California State Normal School made two moves to get it to Westwood. This all came about when UCLA was awarded the status of "Southern Branch of the University of California." The "branch" today is no branch at all but a university totally on par with the original, Cal.

SF State College: moved from central SF to the wide open spaces of the city's southwest corner.

Well, that's some of them. But I know there are many more. What other universities (or colleges) moved to their present locations from somewhere else?

[Toxic Toast]

Butler University in Indianapolis used to be located on the east side of Indianapolis in the Irvington neighborhood. After World War I, enrollment grew to the point that Butler decided they needed a bigger campus. They moved to their current location about 5 miles north of downtown.

[cornsnicker3]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Most universities stay put, where they were founded, but some pull up their roots and move to a new location, a new campus. What universities fulfill that description? (I'll name a few)

UIC: founded after WWII to educate returning vets in Chicago, the U of I opened a branch on Navy Pier, a two year school, part of the Champaign campus, with sophomores who chose going on to the main campus downstate. The university moved to its current west side location in 1965, because its own institution, first UICC (from the Chicago Circle downtown interchange next door), later to be combined with the UI Med School to become UIC

University of Michigan: began in Detroit with the unfortunate name of Catholepistemiad of Michigan. Some years later, Ann Arbor has set aside land it hoped would be selected as the state capital. That went to Lansing, so Ann Arbor offered up the acreage to the university.

Wake Forest: If Wake Forest had stayed in Wake Forest, there would have been a Research Quadrilateral, not Research Triangle. WF kissed UNC, NC State & Duke good bye in the late 1940s, and relocated in Winston Salem ....with a big donation from the Reyonds Foundation

Columbia University: the very Ivy League and very colonially rooted Columbia began life as Kings College in very colonial lower Manhattan. Like much of Manhattan, Columbia moved uptown, first to 49th & Madison and then further uptown to its current and permanent Morningside Has. campus.

UCLA: if Columbia moved up, UCLA moved out. The old California State Normal School made two moves to get it to Westwood. This all came about when UCLA was awarded the status of "Southern Branch of the University of California." The "branch" today is no branch at all but a university totally on par with the original, Cal.

SF State College: moved from central SF to the wide open spaces of the city's southwest corner.

Well, that's some of them. But I know there are many more. What other universities (or colleges) moved to their present locations from somewhere else?

Jefferson College started in Canonsburg, PA, but later combined with Washington College in nearby Washington, PA to become Washington and Jefferson College. Jefferson College has all, but a log house remaining in Canonsburg placed at the front of a middle school.

Jefferson College is known for the Jefferson Duo fraternities, Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) (my fraternity) and Phi Kappa Psi. FIJI is known to have started in the log cabin and it remains a historical relic for the fraternity.

[FalstaffBlues]

NYU moved to Manhattan from the Bronx I’m pretty sure.

SLU was downtown at 9th and Washington for most of the 19th century.

[Iconographer]

Emory University, founded in 1836, moved from rural Oxford, GA to the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta in 1915. The move was initiated by an heir to the Coca-Cola fortune that donated his estate (Lullwater) to the Methodist Church(with whom Emory was affiliated until 1997).
Emory still maintains a two-year college in Oxford, and the Lullwater House now serves as the Emory President's residence.

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Norwich U






founded in Norwich VT, moved to Northfield VT