Marshall University

Marshall University is a public university based in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 as the private Marshall Academy, a secondary school or high school, under the control of the Southern Methodist Church. It was renamed Marshall College in 1857; however, the majority of its offerings remained below the college level. The church lost control of the college and it became a state institution in 1867. It was renamed Marshall University in 1961, although it had been acredited as a university-level institution since 1938.

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University - Huntington, West Virginia - 1837 - Secondary school - High school - Methodist - 1857 - 1867 - 1961

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Marshall's enrollment was 16,500 in 2004. In addition to the main campus in Huntington, the school maintains a graduate-level branch campus in South Charleston, West Virginia, and undergraduate centers in Gilbert, West Virginia, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Hurricane, West Virginia.

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2004 - A graduate-level branch campus - South Charleston, West Virginia - Gilbert, West Virginia - Point Pleasant, West Virginia - Hurricane, West Virginia

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Marshall University is composed of eight colleges and schools: the College of Liberal Arts (COLA), the College of Fine Arts (COFA), the College of Education and Human Services (COEHS), the College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE), the Lewis College of Business (LCOB), the College of Science (COS), the College of Health Professions (COHP), and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications (SOJMC). The University is also home to the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, which is a regional center for cancer research and which has a national reputation for its programs in rural health care delivery. In 2005, Dr. Sarah Denman serves as the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the eight college deans are Dr. Christina Murphy (COLA), Mr. Don Van Horn (COFA), Dr. Rosalyn Templeton (COEHS), Ms. Betsy Dulin (CITE), Dr. Paul Uselding (LCOB), Dr. Wayne Elmore (COS), Dr. Shortie McKinney (COHP), and Dr. Corley Dennison (SOJMC). Dr. Charles McCown serves as the Dean of the Medical School.

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Marshall University also operates the Robert C. Byrd Institute, with operations on both the Huntington and South Charleston campuses, as well as in Fairmont, West Virginia, and Rocket Center, West Virginia. The goal of the Institue is the transfer technology from the academic departments to private industry with the goal of job development in regional area.

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Robert C. Byrd - Fairmont, West Virginia - Rocket Center, West Virginia

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