University of Memphis
The University of Memphis (Memphis) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students.
Former names
Memphis State University (1957–1994)
Memphis State College (1941–1957)
West Tennessee State Teachers College (1925–1941)
West Tennessee State Normal School (1912–1925)
Latin: Imaginari cogitare facere
To imagine, to think, to do
September 10, 1912
$220.8 million (2020)[1]
930
1,570
21,916[2]
16,703[3]
5,209[3]
Urban 1,160 acres (4.7 km2)
The Daily Helmsman [4]
Blue and Gray[5]
TOM III (Formally Live Tiger - deceased September 18, 2020) and Pouncer (costume)
The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering, the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the former Lambuth University campus in Jackson, Tennessee (now a branch campus of the University of Memphis), the Loewenberg College of Nursing, the School of Public Health, the College of Communication and Fine Arts, the FedEx Institute of Technology, the Advanced Distributed Learning Workforce Co-Lab, and the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology. The University of Memphis is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High research activity".[6]
Academic rankings
498
269
251
501–600
1104
The University of Memphis is associated with the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) system, consisting of 18 board members. However, as of May 2017, it is governed by an institutional Board of Trustees. Within this framework, the president of the University of Memphis is the day-to-day administrator of the university.
The University of Memphis today comprises a number of different colleges and schools:
The University of Memphis is host to several centers of advanced research:
The University of Memphis Foundation, founded in 1964, manages the university endowment and accepts, manages and disburses private support to the university.[33]
Special programs and institutes[edit]
Tennessee Governor's School for International Studies[edit]
The Governor's School for International Studies is an academic summer program for gifted junior and senior high school students in Tennessee. It is a selective program located at the University of Memphis in which students study two political sciences, a foreign language, and an elective of their choice from the international studies curriculum. The students, upon finishing the four-week term, gain six hours of college credit which may be transferred to any Tennessee Board of Regents School.[41]
Chucalissa Indian Village[edit]
UofM also operates the Chucalissa Indian Village, an American Indian heritage site and museum. Officially known as the T. O. Fuller State Park, the location includes a museum and important archeological sites.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change[edit]
Founded in 1996 by civil rights activist Benjamin L. Hooks, and faculty of the department of political science at the University of Memphis, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis is dedicated to preserving the history of the civil rights movement and continuing the struggle for equality championed by its namesake. The Hooks Institute is housed within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis. The mission of the Hooks Institute is to teach, study and promote civil rights and positive social change. This mission is implemented through a variety of programs focused on the scholarship of the civil rights movement, public policy research and scholarship, commemorations and grants focused on continuing scholarship of the civil rights movement, public events focused on civil rights and social change, media focused on the civil rights movement including documentary films and websites, and direct engagement programs to improve the conditions of marginalized communities.[42]
